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According to Armini, the communications office has also shrunk in recent years. The office employed 10 and a half full-time staffers in 1996, but now has only 7 and a half such positions...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman and Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Exits Help Clear Out Radcliffe Structure | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...make a helluva gadfly. In a presidential field that had shrunk to four even before the primaries even appeared on the horizon, Beatty would command the press coverage to make the necessary splash, and the Hollywood connections -? galore! ?- to fill the war chest in a hurry. He?s done more womanizing than George W. Bush and at 62, still has a better head of hair than Gore?s, Bradley?s and McCain?s put together. Women love him, or at least they used to, and wife Annette Bening has already played in a couple of movies set in the White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will They Get in a Lather for President Bulworth? | 8/12/1999 | See Source »

...case you've lost your abbreviations handbook, is a compression scheme that allows the digital music in CDs to be shrunk to a tenth its size and still sound great. MP3 songs are small enough to be traded online, and they are by the millions--to the consternation of record companies, which fear that everything ever released on disc will end up online for free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Want My Mp3 | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...hope to perform with unquestioned success. The bulk of Rudenstine's time, however, is caught up in the kind of minutiae more appropriate for a small college president than the head of a major University. As a result, it seems, the office of the president of Harvard University has shrunk under Rudenstine's well-intentioned hand...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Regarding `Rudy' | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...1990s. He is a menace, a thug, a postcommunist villain who has cynically manipulated nationalism. He has blood on his hands. But his state does not have either the power or the ideological will to conquer Europe. While Germany under Hitler grew ever bigger, Yugoslavia under Milosevic has shrunk. The element of truth in this analogy is President Clinton's point about appeasement: the longer you put off standing up to aggressive dictators, the higher the price. If we had called Hitler's bluff when he remilitarized the Rhineland in 1936, 50 million lives might have been spared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Adolf Hitler? | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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