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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might expect that Birk's life has always headed in this direction, especially when gifted with a 6'4 frame that now carries 315 pounds. On the contrary, Birk has ridden a wave of chance, blessings, and hard work into an NFL roster spot...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Star Birk Adjusts to NFL | 2/4/1999 | See Source »

Although Yale has a reputation among Ivy League undergraduates for being crime-ridden, university officials claim their campus is actually among the safest of the eight colleges

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Call Yale Prof. Interview Routine | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

Mayer went West in 1918, just after the first wave of Hollywood pioneers. He had been on the move since his threadbare family left its Cossack-ridden Ukrainian village in the late 1880s and a few years later settled in St. John, New Brunswick. There his father Jacob Mayer struggled as a junkman. Little Louie, half starved, battled anti-Semitic bullies and helped his father--whom he despised as much as he adored his mother. Escaping St. John in his late teens, he moved on to Boston, where he discovered the Nickelodeon, the embryo of the moving-picture business. Quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUIS B. MAYER: Lion Of Hollywood | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...that Watson went home to was an American icon. It was the outgrowth of a debt-ridden maker of scales, time clocks and accounting machines that his father took charge of in 1914--the year Tom Jr. was born. The elder Watson created a fanatically loyal work force at IBM--the company's name since 1924--hanging THINK signs everywhere, leading employee sing-alongs (corporate anthem: Hail to IBM) and dictating everything from office attire (white shirt, dark suit) to policies on smoking and drinking (forbidden on the job and strongly discouraged off it). IBM dominated the market for punch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THOMAS WATSON JR: Master Of The Mainframe | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...attention focused on Walton as populist retailer: his preference for pickup trucks over limos and for the company of bird dogs over that of investment bankers. His extraordinary charisma had motivated hundreds of thousands of employees to believe in what Wal-Mart could accomplish, and many of them had ridden the company's stock to wealth. It was the American Dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Discounting Dynamo: Sam Walton | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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