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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Schools such as Cornell, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia all bear outdated long-distance carrier contracts. Each chooses to place an even heavier burden on international students than Harvard does by balancing lower domestic rates with international calling costs that exceed even Harvard's rates...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Phoning Home: Students Decry Hefty International Rates | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...time to spend with four troubled souls moseying toward inevitability. But the popularity of pizazzy Hollywood melodrama should not mean that the only movie pace is four-on-the-floor frantic. Beloved has a pulse that beats slower because the hearts of its characters are heavier; but that pulse is evidence of complex people sifting through the ashes of a national tragedy, trying to find meaning and a reason to hope...

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

...immediate lesson Blake learned is that he must improve his fitness level. The increased range of ground strokes, heavier topspin and more dynamic second serves of the pros clearly took their toll on Blake's body. Twice during ATP competition--during the U.S. Open and Pilot Pen--Blake had to be treated for cramps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: James Blake Blazes Back | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...guitar, demonstrating his talent with both as fans waited impatiently for the vinyl-clad Siouxsie to emerge. It was only during his fifth song that she strutted onto the stage crooning the last of the lyrics along with Cale. Siouxsie was happy and comfortable in the spotlight, slightly heavier than she used to be, her voice clearly older, yet still staring ahead with her striking eyes, graced with amply black mascara...

Author: By Roman Altshuler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Musicians, Friends Converge On Stage | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

...universe may have just gotten a lot heavier. A team of American and Japanese physicists announced Friday that the neutrino -- a pervasive but elusive subatomic particle long considered to be weightless -- may have mass after all, which could solve the mystery of why the universe doesn't seem as heavy as science says it should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Universe Puts On Some Weight | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

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