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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because Mouse on Mars offers so little emotional or stylistic variety, Autoditacker starts to seem formulaic after a couple spins. Their formula, though, is intoxicatingly musical and at times boldly innovative

Author: By John T. Reuland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mouse On Mars Brings Musical Sophistication to Techno | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

Last year, Harvard fell from its coveted top stop to No.3 in U.S. News and World Report's annual college ranking, partly because the magazine factored in class sizes in its formula for ranking schools...

Author: By Christopher T. Boyd, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Admissions Brochure, Registrar Differ on College Class Sizes | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

When asked how the registrar's office defines "mostly," he said that "there's not a formula" and that each case is usually evaluated by "historical precedent...

Author: By Christopher T. Boyd, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Admissions Brochure, Registrar Differ on College Class Sizes | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

With that precious time, the Crimson will look to uncover the winning formula that it so clearly exhibited last year. Perhaps then, the drive home from Ithaca, New York will be a stark contrast to Friday's disappointing trek back from Yale...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Soccer Avoids Late Eli Charge | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...seasons after Angel's debut, several series tried to capitalize on its formula. The well-acted, heart-tugging Promised Land, created by Williamson, has Gerald McRaney (Major Dad) taking his newly destitute family around the country in a trailer, helping others find faith. Aaron Spelling, who first traded angels in low-cut blouses for the spiritual kind with his 1994 flop Heaven Help Us, came up with the cruelly slow-paced 7th Heaven. It stars Stephen Collins as a minister in a troubled extended family whose members seem to do mean things to one another just so they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE GOD SQUAD | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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