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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being tragically moving despite the unsavory plot. Indeed, the reason why Lyne's film works is that it focuses upon the potential of film to beautify even the grotesque. The effect is a little artificial, a spectacle designed to seduce the viewer into turning away from the moral problem of the film. In a time when films often try to say something about life, here is a film about the power of film. --Irene Hahn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

However, Moss said the new system at HBS will not have this last problem, as it does not allow on-line resume submissions...

Author: By Ari Behar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HBS Offers Web Job Help | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

Grenier also discussed the effect of global markets on the United States' economy as a whole, saying "the Russian economy is not that globally significant" while "Latin America's economy is a problem...

Author: By Daniel A. Zweifach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: I-Banker Caps Career Week | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...means we will leave behind even more garbage. Likewise, we might defend the pundits by granting that when they talk about "history," they aren't talking about 3,000 years from now--they're talking about 30. If the Nixon scandal fits these pundits' conception of "history," well, sure. Problem is, most of the people who watched that scandal unfold are still alive. We can't be honest about allowing "history to pass judgment" when the people passing judgment are the same people who saw the whole thing happen--and maybe even commented on it at the time...

Author: By Dara Horm, | Title: The Monica of Mesopotamia | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...urgent alarm. It hasn?t issued an "airworthiness directive," the FAA's term for something that must be done at once. Instead, the agency suggests that the retrofit be performed at each plane?s next scheduled maintenance check, or thereabouts. The FAA has known about the potential insulation problem for years -- its Chinese counterpart reported the problem in 1996 after a Chinese Eastern MD-11 caught fire in Beijing. Hopefully, no more fresh evidence will come along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fire in the Sky | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

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