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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which a four-point list of objectives was announced. This list includes the demands that the College submit a student center as one of its priorities for the next capital campaign, that a time-table be established, a planning committee formed, and an architect be hired sometime in the near future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: If You Build It... | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...DeNunzio, Killar and Soltis now get ready for Nationals, which is held at Penn State on March 18. They will train hard this week then taper as the competition draws near. DeNunzio and Killar are expected to be among the top six seeds in their respective weight classes...

Author: By Jodie L. Pearl, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling Takes Third In EIWA Championship | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...Rudd, 53, of Des Moines, who called Kasich's idea "fluff" during the Congressman's swing through Iowa. And now it isn't even resonating with Republican congressional leaders, whose initial enthusiasm quickly faded--first into nervous, qualified support and finally, by last week, into utter indifference and near disdain. Even some conservatives agree with Florida's Joe Scarborough, who dubbed the Kasich plan "a loser idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Well Runs Dry | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...Crime to me, dark social history, ebb andflow of dark events, the near psychopathic,semi-psychopathic, the leg-breakers of history area voice for me to express my moral concernsbecause these are men who paid morally for theirdark deeds. I am first and last and always amoralist. They are the means for me to recreatehistory to my own specifications, but I am notthem.There is a definite distinction betweenmost writers and their work. Because the work is,in the end, as it is in my case, a work ofimagination, with the exception of thenon-fiction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAMES ELLROY: CRIME PAYS | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...better suited to such gritty material. As for Walker, his unflinching style remains as unnerving as ever, but he still has room to grow as a writer. There are several instances where his plot twists and character motivations are slack and lazily conceived, and there is a point near the end where 8MM nearly veers into ludicrousness. Still, as crass as it may be, 8MM is a high-octane thriller with an unwavering level of intensity that is nothing short of admirable. There are certainly going to be viewers who will be appalled by 8MM, and anyone who disliked Seven...

Author: By Bill Gienapp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PORNOGRAPHERS | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

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