Word: shawn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of a pain," said Shawn C. Celler'97, who was unable to purchase several historybooks until more than two weeks of the semesterhad gone by. "If you take the books out of thelibrary, you can't take notes in them. Thatbecomes a problem when you're reading severalhundred pages at a time...
Purists claim that the magazine lost its distinctive character in 1987 when Robert Gottlieb replaced the legendary William Shawn as editor. Yet Gottlieb's changes were incremental. And, in true disciple mode, the new editor remained faithful to the magazine's style and ethos...
...Brown New Yorker is everything that the Shawn-Gottlieb New Yorker was not. It is loud, bustling and blighted with that bane of modern life: relevance. Its articles are closely linked to current events, with the occasional bit of controversy thrown in for good measure. Its bright, wearyingly busy covers are increasingly and (for this writer, who misses the sedate Cape Cod cottage exteriors) inexplicably monopolized by Art Spiegelman's relentlessly contemporary artwork. The screaming covers are a tacit capitulation to the dictates of commerce, increasingly reflective of the need to compete in that bustling souk known...
From that team, the Tribe returns 14 starters, including the deadly offensive tandem of quarterback Shawn Knight and running back Derek Fitzgerald...
...Glines Canyon Dam and the Elwha Dam on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula are also possible candidates for removal. They block five species of salmon -- the Chinook, the pink, sockeye, chum and coho -- from spawning grounds. Observes Shawn Cantrell, director of Friends of the Earth's Northwest Rivers Project: "If the final decision is made to remove the dams, it will be a statement by our national government that past exploitation of our natural resources can be corrected. We can go back and fix the mistakes we made in previous generations...