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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...helped me with my calculus problem sets. He would tell me everyday that I will pass calculus. I did," Camille said...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faculty, Students Pay Tribute to MIT First-Year | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...biggest problem is Costner himself. In his current middle-aged, paunch-ridden, crooked-toothed, balding status, he just doesn't cut quite the same dashing, leading man figure he once did. Perhaps he has delusions of Jimmy Stewart-esque everyman grandeur. Costner certainly had a certain soccer dad appeal in The Untouchables, but a hunk? Hardly. Whereas Stewart had an endearing awshucks demeanor, Costner is about as charming as a tree. Gone are the days where he can plausibly seduce Susan Sarandon on a table or Madeline Stowe with a lemon. Now, he's just like the chubby slob...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: love in a bottle | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...good deal shorter than the others, leading the editors to characterize the result as a "far from pretty picture of Harvard life" (Editorial, Feb. 4). Never mind that 3.46 is a good deal above the midpoint of the scale; it's lower than the other numbers. How serious a problem is this inadequacy of Harvard's social life...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis, | Title: Romance and Love at Harvard | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...have led a fairly academic existence over the past three years (I'm a philosophy concentrator), and surely the fresh air of the "real world" would do my burnt-out mind some good. As I had heard through the grapevine, consulting companies have a secret hankering for kinds with problem-solving ability but no real business knowledge. My parents made a point of showing me newspaper profiles about Wall Street executives who had majored in such esoteric fields as classics or Sanskrit. For all I knew, the financial world might be crawling with closeted philosophy types, sneaking...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: Running the Recruiting Gauntlet | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...think someone who takes "Shop 'Til You Drop" is someone who has contradictory feelings and wants to understand it. I would be surprised if all the people in the call were there for some shopping habit problem...

Author: By Jonathan S. Paul, | Title: Shopping Shopping | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

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