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...easiest and simplest remedy for high textbook costs is for students to buy used books, but that requires action by professors and the Coop...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Budgeting 101 | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

...anything, that is truly particular to her. Yet the only thing that most people think of doing is taking the person out to dinner and buying them drinks. Like the Qwerty keyboard, it does its job, even though the results may be less than they could have been. The simplest, clearest path of least resistance is the obvious choice; lack of mass motivation to learn Dvorak or plan a more interesting celebration takes care of the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Join the Circus, Type Dvorak and Go Free | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...once in a while, to consider why we end up doing things the way we do them. Is it because we really like what we're doing, or because it's just easier--and because we're indifferent enough that we'd rather just eliminate our indecision in the simplest possible way? The greatest hindrance to achievement is not lack of intelligence, but rather the failure to be imaginative, to make commitments and take risks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Join the Circus, Type Dvorak and Go Free | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...concrete--he understands that a municipal body of water is where the eternal elements meet the here and now. When he rides an elevated subway car, he sees a cramped rectangle that's a public square, where people sign the air every time they stretch. And in the simplest black churches he recognizes that rapture is democratic, that a scuffed room is sanctified by the supreme projection of human needs in God's general direction. What he's saying is that the city is a place requiring courage and cunning. And that it's graceland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Intimate City | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...yearning climax and then fades away gradually. There is silence for a few minutes, and then the brittle piano chords of "October" start. Sparse and lonely, like a barren tree in winter, "October" is U2 at its finest, displaying some of the strongest emotions on the album with the simplest, minimalist music...

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: U2 THE GOLDEN YEARS... | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

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