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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...closing, because in our most conservative estimation, at least several hundred Eliot residents showed up to bid on such unique items as an oil massage, a conducting lesson and a personalized cheer from the cheerleading team. If anything, the high turnout and raucous bidding--Crocker was clearly not present for long enough to appreciate just how lively it was--reflects Eliot House's ability to develop into a more rambunctious and outgoing community, despite the author's assertion to the contrary...

Author: By Robert S. Schwartz, | Title: Eliot Auction Reflected Outgoing Community | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

...widely known that many of Stanford's departments, both in the science and engineering fields as well as the social sciences, are second to none. Faculty, past and present, include Linus Pauling, Richard Zare, Robert Sapolsky, Eric Roberts, Steven Chu, John Taylor, Richard Zimbardo, Condoleeza Rice. If you know anything about their respective fields, you'll know who we're talking about...

Author: By Terry Hwang and Evan Nordby, THE STANFORD DAILYS | Title: Sunny Delight: Good Enough for The First Daughter | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Mortality doesn't often present itself so obviously. Last Friday, Wayne Gretzky sat on a dais at Madison Square Garden, watching clips from his childhood and professional career, about to announce his retirement. "Sometimes you go to funerals, and sometimes you get to go to weddings," he said. "And to me, this is a party." Then he stopped himself from crying. "I should take my own advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wayne Gretzky: The Great One Skates Away | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

There appears to be more virtual environment on the Web than there remains real environment in the actual, tattered, non-virtual world itself. Or nearly. Yet doing research on the Internet is like taking a two-year-old for a walk. Pretty pebbles and deeply meaningful small sticks present themselves, but enlightenment seldom proceeds in a straight line. There is always some beguiling irrelevancy to be clicked, which is good. Often, however, the environmental pilgrim discovers to his surprise that there is not much depth of information. A surprising number of green websites are little more than 16-bit fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In Cyberspace | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...find any of the blatant regurgitation with which modern bands have made a killing. Falkner laments: "We've had to suffer through years and years of clone bands. The whole quiet MISSING sad." Running the opposite direction, Falkner taps into a timeless beauty and exudes thirst for life present in the pop bands that have managed a lasting impact of modern music...

Author: By R. ADAM Lauridsen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: rock star unknown | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

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