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...know I don't speak for all young women, and so can't pretend to represent the assault victims any more than the columnists I've criticized. But hopefully I can at least lend a fresh perspective to the media melee, being a 21-year-old female known to wear tight pants or a tube top now and then...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Common Sense on Both Ends | 6/23/2000 | See Source »

...Sitting on the stoop outside Holworthy munching on bread and grease, I was disgusted with myself and my vision of freshman year. I would pretend to be like these other girls, who were having the time of their lives, but I would never have fun because I was in constant worrywart mode...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On a New Campus, Adventures in Babysitting | 6/23/2000 | See Source »

...immense clout? And to the wary eyes of Washington, AOL's fiercely proprietary instincts when it comes to IM is a bad omen. If Bill Gates and Steve Case were on speaking terms, Gates might have this to pass on: If you want to be king, at least pretend to be benevolent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Merge, AOL May Have to Play Nice Over IM | 6/14/2000 | See Source »

...undergraduate chateau to house its students, to frighten the locals, to drain the swamps, etc. Though actually maybe it won't be a 13th House because 13 has such bad juju and all, but maybe it would be best just to put together a 14th House and pretend 13 never happened. Can you do that? Anyway, that's not the point...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Future... | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...begin with the reasons why the economic system we called socialism back in the 20th century is unlikely ever to return. Today it's a cliche to say that socialism didn't work, that it produced a society in which, as the Soviets used to joke, they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work. In fact, socialism did work at one period in history: during the 1930s, and again in the '50s and '60s, socialist economies like that of the U.S.S.R. grew faster than their capitalist counterparts. But they stopped working sometime during the 1970s and '80s, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Socialism Make a Comeback? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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