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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartboard was surfing the Web recently when we stumbled upon a real gem, Resignation.com. Arianna Huffington, our favorite Greek-heiress-turned-pundit, has had her minions construct a site in tribute to that most dramatic of political statements--quitting. The site includes a history of notable leaders who have thrown in the towel, a list of publications which have called for the President to step down and an opportunity for people to issue their own call for Clinton's surrender...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...college without a degree in the spring of 1885. At his mother's behest, Hearst had enrolled reluctantly in the class of '86, moved into Matthews and suffered from the same culture shock many California transplants experience today. Not relishing his studies (which included, in his freshman year alone, Greek, Latin, Classical Lectures, German, Algebra and Chemistry), he concentrated instead on his position as "the first real business manager of the Lampoon," in the words of Nick C. Malis '99, a member of the Lampoon. When Hearst died in August 1951, the Boston Evening American mentioned that "In two years...

Author: By Micaela K. Root, | Title: Why to drop out of school | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

However, Lewis emphasized the importance of "agape" love. "Agape" is the Greek word for love in the commandment to love thy neighbor used in the Bible. It deals with love involving will, not romantic love or love between friends. "As a clinician, I have discovered that `agape' is key to all relationships," Nicholi said...

Author: By Sarah E. Reckhow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Noble Lecture Focuses on Love and Sexuality | 10/7/1998 | See Source »

...mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood. In the role of Baby Suggs, Beah Richards, who 30 years ago won an Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, serves as both Greek chorus and black preacher; her sermons give the film heft and life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bewitching Beloved | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...expedition to a "Waters of Peace" program that aims to locate ecologically threatening wrecks left under the sea. "We conceived this operation as a way to carry on Cousteau's work and philosophy," she says, sitting in the Captain's former office in Paris surrounded by diving helmets, Greek amphoras and other memorabilia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cousteau's Legacy: His Son and Widow Compete to Carry On | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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