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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another concern is that counseling could cross the line into cheating. "Counseling helps you explain away the difficulties in your record and highlight your best features," defines Andy Rosen, CEO of Kaplan. But when does "editing" become writing a student's essays for him? Achieva insists that it only gives guidance and makes students do Internet and college-guide research and their own writing. Still, Andy Lutz, a vice president at the Princeton Review, admits the distinction is tricky. "There's a line between suggesting and rewriting," he says. "But it's a gray area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guidance For Sale | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...similarity in their words, of course, helps explain the difference in their music. Bradley talks more about government responsibility and justice, Gore about personal responsibility and standards. Gore appeals to the party's sense of loyalty: Who was there to fight with you during the wars with the Gingrich Congress? Bradley appeals to the Democratic outsize dreams of the New Deal era: bigger is better. Both are trying to evoke a time when there were distinctions to be made because now there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: What Kind Of Democrats Are They? | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Their cases could, of course, be just medical oddities, but Damasio thinks otherwise. In his view, more subtle malfunctions of the prefrontal cortex, including physical or psychological trauma caused by childhood abuse, could be at the root of many troubled lives. If so, his two cases may explain a much wider societal problem that cries out for medical and psychological intervention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telling Right From Wrong | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...wonder if anyone can explain to me exactly what is it that has changed in your newsrooms or your polices stations," Morisseau said. "By focussing on the nature of the [Stuart] crime you're ignoring the responses of the media in general...

Author: By Zachary R. Mider, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HLS Panel Looks Back at Stuart Murder | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

Cellular industry insiders explain that one reason for the mobile explosion is an increase in industry competition that is pushing prices down...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ringing Off the Hook | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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