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...impossible to predict whether Lewis’ successor will seek to emulate his meticulous attention to detail and craving for organization...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Seven Years, Lewis Calls Shots At College | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...even though the new report had the support of Faculty Council and the EPC, Pedersen said it was hard to predict the outcome of the vote of the full Faculty...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Tries To Combat Grade Inflation | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

Cell phones are basically little radios; how well they work depends on how many antennas your carrier has set up wherever you happen to be. Since most carriers do not share radio towers, reception varies widely from city to city and even neighborhood to neighborhood. You can't always predict what kind of coverage you're going to get where you need it, but here are a few tips for minimizing that cell-phone blackout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smart Ones | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...hope that I will ever have a clean, confident and balanced view of my undergraduate experience. Right now, the confusion from these conflicting interpretations only allows for a very wide sense of sadness and celebration about letting go of everything that was and everything that might have been. I predict that a fully coherent picture of this four-year moment will always elude me, even as anxieties about what it all meant have powerfully shaped not just my last year here, but the way I will remember the past four years as well...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, | Title: The Meaning of the End | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...knows exactly what the impact a surplus of tens of millions of men will be on society. Sociologists predict that both military and monastic life will become more popular. But these institutions will only be able to soak up a limited number of men, and the government fears a rise in crime, prostitution and drug use as a swarm of bachelors roam the countryside. A hint of that future has already arrived in Shaanxi's Qiaogou village, where children play under a dusty apple tree, tossing scraps of vegetables as makeshift toys. The noise is the raucous glee of boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Rural China, It's a Family Affair | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

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