Word: popular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although HRIF had sponsored several popular campus events, including the Interfaith Day of Service and the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Memorial Service, Edelman said a low level of participation by members recently made it impossible to justify continuing the group...
...shift, and he's doing his thing. The Furious Five have long since broken up. Flash had drug problems, money problems and a court battle with his old record company, Sugar Hill, but he says today he has no ill will. He's the musical director on HBO's popular Chris Rock Show. And he's helping to develop a movie script about his life. "I was bitter a while back because I got into this for the love," says Flash. "I gave these people the biggest rap group of all time. But as long as there...
...service's most popular feature is anonymous Web browsing ($5 a month), which allows you to select a company server as your proxy--a middleman between you and the Web. All requests are shortstopped there, and cookies are summarily eaten. In a few weeks, the company will introduce a service that allows you to discriminate: if you do online banking in which a cookie is required, you can set up your account to automatically hand it over. Otherwise, Anonymizer cloaks...
DIED. ROBERT SHAW, 82, longtime music director of the Atlanta Symphony and dean of American choral conducting; in New Haven, Conn. In 1948, just two years after his conducting debut, Shaw founded the popular, internationally traveled Robert Shaw Chorale. He especially loved working with amateur singers, whom he cultivated with a methodical, humorous style. "Singing, like sex, is far too important to leave to the professionals," he said...
...SHOPPING SITES What did people shop for online last holiday season? Books, music, software and toys ranked among the most popular choices. But the surprise favorites were online greeting cards from Blue Mountain Arts, which got more than 12 million visitors in December. The hundreds of animated cards are tempting, and so is the price: free...