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Thought priding itself on updating its technology, the Faculty still falls prey to computer problems...

Author: By Benjamin P. Solomon-schwartz and Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Knowles: Faculty Recruitment Will Be Top Priority | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

Neither CBS erasing its competitors nor Harvard trying to disguise Serbia is as pernicious as, say, Stalin airbrushing Trotsky out of group photos. But all attempts to change images prey on the tendency of humans to trust the camera, to assume that whatever they see is real. The loss of that trust is perhaps one of the more worrisome consequences of a few minutes' play in Photoshop...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: What You See is What You Get | 1/26/2000 | See Source »

...What follows, however, falls disappointingly short of expectations. Though a cinematographic knock-out (kudos to director of photography Zhao Fei), this epic rendering fails to lend vibrancy to the story of the first emperor of China's rise to power. All too predictably, The Emperor and the Assassin falls prey to the temptation of presenting sumptuous costumes and cast-of-thousands battle scenes at the expense of an engaging plot and well-developed characters...

Author: By Jeni Tu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Epic Bloodshed in Ancient China | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

...Cuban-American, anti-Castro community in America. Cold-hearted politicians, eager to exploit the situation for political gain, quickly joined in the fun, subsuming the Department of Immigration and Naturalization Service's ruling that Elin be returned to Cuba. The media, too, deserve approbation for easily falling prey to savvy citizens' image-fashioning...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: Editorial Notebook: A Boy Named Elián | 1/10/2000 | See Source »

According to H. Westley Clark, director of the center for substance abuse treatment, a federal government program, this generation of college students is "under no greater or lesser risk" of falling prey to the risks of drinking...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do Students Really Care About Binging? | 1/7/2000 | See Source »

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