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Perhaps it is the trappings or the consequences of success rather than success itself which excite popular frustration--the Cowboys clearly have not behaved in exemplary fashion since attaining greatness and Bill Gates' company uses its position of dominance to gobble up smaller software producers with what sometimes seems to...

Author: By David M. Weld, | Title: Booing Bill Gates | 11/18/1997 | See Source »

The United States hopes that by exposing foreign leaders to the American personality, we can assure them of the virtues of democratic liberalism. That is, if we can only show them the wacky good humor, ease and open-mindedness of the American personality, they will be convinced of the greatness...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Beyond Personalities in Foreign Policy | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

Despite protestations about its heroes' greatness, Lewis & Clark may actually not do them justice. At the end of The Great Gatsby (to switch writers for a moment), F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote of the Dutch sailors who encountered the "fresh green breast of the new world." What those sailors were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: KEN BURNS: DOMESTICATED DARING | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

All in all, this production of Titus Andronicus provides an intriguing nontraditional take on one of Shakespeare's least well-known plays. More macabre melodramatic fun than true tragic drama, it nonetheless has moments of tension and poignancy that show signs of the greatness that was to come

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eerie 'Titus' Ushers in Halloween at Adams | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

"We have written letters to the three surviving Beatles to bestow upon us all their wit and greatness" says Jones, who wrote letters to the three musicians in the past summer. "That remains the ultimate, as-yet unfulfilled goal of the club members. That's our ultimate dream."

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Beatles Appreciation Society: Beatle Mania Hits Harvard (Again) | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

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