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Many landlords prefer to rent to Harvard affiliates, Dunn says, because they "feel the students are reliable". Local alums often prefer to list with HPRE for the same reason...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Precious Properties | 12/17/1998 | See Source »

Admittedly, it is exciting to help pick the new design. But as I evaluated the choices last weekend, I felt the hypocrisy eating at me. Which image of Sacajawea did I prefer? No. 14, where she looks dark and almost manly, with a large nose and braided hair? Or No. 98, where her features are duller and softer, with her baby on her back? And what about No. 100, where we see her whole, thin figure, one arm pointing to the west, mountains in the background...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Choose Your Own Sacajawea | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

Finally, I ask, At what price victory? If winning must be accompanied by behavior like Ciollo's, then I would prefer to lose. JAMES M. MARKHAM...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Comments Classless | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...upped Netscape, though, by vastly improving the way the browser handles search, bookmarking and history. Both browsers work equally well in Windows, by the way. And both include free mail programs: Netscape comes with Messenger and Microsoft gives away Outlook Express, which has been upgraded. Again, I prefer Microsoft's offering: Outlook looks snappier and offers a great way to handle junk mail. Microsoft's beta, however, is no Ally McBeal: it takes up 15.4 megabytes just for the browser; 49 megs if you install the mailer and other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Browsing? | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

Commercially, this worked out beautifully for him. Most people prefer their entertainments to embrace the comfortably cute rather than the disturbingly acute--especially when they're bringing the kids. Movie critics started ignoring him, and social critics began hectoring him, because his work ground off the rough, emotionally instructive edges of the folk- and fairy-tale tradition on which it largely drew, robbing it of "the pulse of life under the skin of events," as one critic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walt Disney: Ruler Of The Magic Kingdom | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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