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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many students, buoyed by a desire to put their best face forward on applications for graduate schools, fellowships and grants, say they have no choice but to rely on the technological dinosaur, dwarfed as it is by the advances of the computer generation...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Computer Age Can't Kill the Typewriter | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...director, and actor Roberto Benigni performs in this film is to convince the audience that this is not a contradiction in terms. Benigni believes in his film's title, and it is this optimism which makes the movie's unlikely concept work. This celebration of the imagination in the face of so much reality--not just in the movie's plot but in its whole visual and emotional style--is a brave choice that will make this film a classic. See this movie for a reminder of the wonderful heights that film can achieve and for the at-long-last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...that other Ivy League face-offtomorrow: "Football has its place for historicalreasons," Benjamin said. "But there are lots ofother interesting ways Harvard and Yale competewith each other, and people should get to knowabout them...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Tries to Check Yale | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

Instead, Mulyar will face Harvard's Jacob Chudnovsky '01 over the Internet...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Tries to Check Yale | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...public works: museums, courthouses, corporation buildings and churches scattered throughout the United States and Europe. Many of these projects reflected the same theme of the dichotomy between public and private space. The majority of these buildings were situated in cities, unlike the houses, and thereby led Meier to face new issues peculiar to construction in urban environments. Both special zoning regulations and the precarious place of modern architecture in the chronology of currently developing cities posed difficult obstacles for him. In the German Museum of Decorative Arts, a zoning restriction which divided the building into five-story and seven-story...

Author: By Brooke M. Lampley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: RICHARD MEIER A MODERN ARCHITECT | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

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