Word: prisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grille on a Friday night or over a neglected math problem set in your room, you'll begin figuring out where you really fit in a three-dimensional world. It will be amazing to see l,600 merit scholars fan out, like light through a prism, into a class with jocks, nerds, class clowns, artists and every other teenage demographic. Some poor souls will even join the Harvard Lampoon; a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. In order to find where you want to go in this fanning...
...such a probe, just as they cried conspiracy when AOL bought Netscape while both were witnesses for the prosecution. Microsoft is convinced that AOL is hiding under the government's antitrust skirts, and there's little Case can do that won't be viewed in Redmond through that prism. When AOL bought Netscape, why didn't it change its default browser from Microsoft's to Netscape's? So as not to weaken the antitrust case, says Microsoft. "When the trial is over," predicts an exec, "they're going to switch...
...could seek out independent sources of information that put Milosevic's retrograde, neocommunist line in context. But with the war on, those independent voices are either snuffed out or taken over. Now, even among the educated elite, a slow, sad transformation is taking hold as Milosevic's distorted media prism resolves every shade of gray into black and white...
...subcommittee is almost invariably underthe thumb of the dean's office," Silverglate saysof his research into Harvard's procedures. "Theevidence is shifted through the prism of thesubcommittee...
...coming year, as Y2K becomes a more familiar problem, the ranks of secular Y2K survivalists may grow. But most early "roosters"--people who see apocalypse on the millennial horizon--came to their conclusions through a prism of religious belief. Though millennialism hinges upon the notion of Christ's return, there are pockets of religious Year 2000 cultism even in nations that are mostly non-Christian. Chen Tao, for instance, is a Taiwan-based group of cultists whose beliefs combine ufo lore with rough-and-ready bits of Christianity. In 1997 a group of them settled in Garland, Texas, to await...