Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From what I see, there is very little nasty competitive behavior in class," he says. "Almost never does someone say something just to put someone else down. They are much more likely to articulate opinions to advocate a certain point of view...
...cannot give an open-ended humanitarian commitment to the world," he said. "It's much better deal with the 32 ethnic wars going on in the world right now in a multilateral context. That means more...
When Deep Blue beat chess master Gary Kasparov in its 1997 rematch, the news was greeted without too much alarm. After all, chess was just a game, like checkers or tic-tac-toe. If a computer could memorize enough mechanical moves to play, that didn't mean it was smart; it was just good at plugging numbers. Computers can only do what they've been programmed to do, the conventional wisdom said; true originality, the capacity to look at a unique situation and determine an appropriate response, required more than circuits...
Niagara (9-1-1, 5-1-0) is in second place because of its easy schedule thus far. The Purple Eagles have beaten up on Maine and Boston College, and they split a two-game series at Cornell. But things will be much more difficult for Niagara, the only ECAC team without a travel partner. The Eagles host UNH this weekend and then travel to Cambridge for two games at Harvard...
...cultural event, the turn of the millennium is starting to look pretty anticlimactic. NBC's much-hyped "Y2K: The Movie" was a bomb. According to the Los Angeles Times last week, sales for millennium shows and galas have been "tepid." The paper reports that "many worry that what was initially looked at as a historic payday may end up as a bad investment covered in confetti." Celebration 2000, a lavish event to be held at the Javits Center in New York, was cancelled after no one bought tickets. Even singer/songwriter/poet Jewel canceled her hometown New Year's Eve concert...