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Besides, keep in mind that business drives software sales, and MIS departments decide what goes onto company computers, not users themselves...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Netscape Loses Its Dominance | 2/17/1998 | See Source »

...spherical or the slimy in quest of audience discomfiture. In an ideal world, this would create bountiful sci-fi by merging with the everyday fear of being alone in a creepy apartment with the feeling that someone's watching or something's awry: (Alien as Repulsion?). Jeunet's possible mis-step in this parade of the pods? Presaging that many scientists of the future would wear the tied back pony tail of aging, disgruntled hippies...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fear of Genetics Meets Cellophane and Custard | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...possible (mis) use of Title IX to close down a school whose mission to help young women become "self-confident, self-reliant, independent learners" parallels the motivating logic of Title IX-to ensure that women have the opportunity to become such self-confident and self-reliant people, as men have-forces us, as thinking citizens, to re-evaluate the relationship between law, its goals and its application. There has always been a tension in legal decision-making between a strict construction, privileging the letter of the law, and a looser one, in which a more flexible understanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Single-sex Schools and the Spirit of Title IX | 9/25/1997 | See Source »

Which brings us to the most obvious (mis)identity, Mariah as Butterfly. Presumably, the title of the album was meant to connote a metamorphosis, an emergence of maturity from a long period of gestation and development. Sorry, dame. No dice. Mariah Carey needs to follow some of her funkier instincts and drop the damsel-in-distress pose; no one wants another Celine Dion. In the meantime, Mariah needs to slow down, grow up, branch out and create some sturdier, more lasting work. This one ought to be called Mayfly.Photo courtesy of Sony Records...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LIGHTER THAN AIR | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

...meet Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) in mid-rant, and our first impression is of a typical New York City cabbie of the old, or native-born, variety, full of mis- and disinformation delivered in a rush that permits no quibbling interruption. Assassination plots both current and historical, a unique slant on the militia movement, even (heaven help us!) inside dope on the Vatican's plans for world domination--the man's a full-service paranoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FULL-SERVICE PARANOIA | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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