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...Angeles does not lend itself to immediate understanding, but it does possess "an intent to communicate." Its dozens of freeways cross each other in patterns that seem random, but are in fact dictated by the swath of buildings in the city and the foothills of mountains in the suburbs...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Seeking the Tangible | 7/18/1997 | See Source »

...deans or University vice-presidents have stretched for months, some for over a year, but Fineburg was appointed a mere 28 days after Carnesale stepped down. Rudenstine also left nothing to chance, considering only three high-ranking officials in the University and considering no one who did not already possess a tremendous working knowledge of the University...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade and Adam S. Hickey, S | Title: The Changing of the Guard | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

...dwarfed by the immense scale of Lichtenstein's work and can never really hold the entire image in our visual field. Only by backing up as far as the gallery allows can we get a good look at the whole composition, but Lichtenstein jokes that we can never really possess nature...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: Seeing The Big Picture | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

Mederos said that for the last four or five months he has been "going back and forth with the individuals who possess the stolen items...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: Suspected Book Thief Arraigned On New Counts | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

...written carefully in order to improve on the successes of its predecessors. Unlike the moderately successful Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), under which five major nations are allowed to possess nuclear weapons but no other member-nations can do so, the CWC creates an even playing field where all countries must destroy their weapons. Unlike the NPT, the CWC has already gained India's ratification...

Author: By Michael M. Rosen, | Title: Ratify the Convention Now! | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

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