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Increase Founder Niki Villanueva Santo '00, said the impetus for starting the magazine was a desire to bring together the creativities and talents of students from Mather's diverse blocking groups...
...question of definition is one of the many topics that both kept this past Saturday afternoon's conference envigorating and problematic. Considerations had both a temporal and an essential feel: can overproduced music still retain an artistic impetus, what is hip hop without dancing, is there an establishment to battle against, do women have a greater place in the future of the music making? Many of these issues challenged the traditional fourpart definition of hip hop--and seem to demand some sort of line drawing. It is for this reason that discussions attempting to further define...
Video games like Doom (in which players gain points by stalking and mutilating the enemy) probably did little to placate the hostility and aggression brewing within the two disturbed students. Yet computer graphics were far from the only impetus for the Columbine massacre. The more we learn about the assailants, the more we realize the April 20th tragedy was influenced by several factors. These included the taunts of peers, the complacency of educators who never questioned the boys' violent writings, the detached parents' ignorance of pipe bombs being built in their basement and the laws that allowed Harris' girlfriend...
...valuable as one with five. What this means is that every extra AOL subscriber is worth more than every extra cable subscriber. How much more is the umpty-billion-dollar question, because that new customer can be marketed to, advertised to, sold to, and may even be the impetus for a whole new form of commerce that will make the network more valuable still. "The growth is incredibly viral," says Wetherell, using one of his favorite words. "Online companies tend to grow along Metcalfe's Law. We have companies growing at a rate of 1% a day. The Internet...
Ross cited the Oslo Conference in 1993 as a major impetus in changing Arab-Israeli relations...