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...must remain an objective cheerleader," hesays with a slight twinkle...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hub Uses Harvard, Glitz to Entice 2000 Dem. Convention | 10/1/1998 | See Source »

...academic interest, or because they have volunteered teaching English-as-a-Second-Language to eighth graders in East Los Angeles or because they realize over thirty percent of the U.S. population will speak Spanish by 2050. I suspected my reasons were less noble. And this suspicion, however slight, turned first to guilt but then to an important realization...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Equal Opportunity Fetishes | 10/1/1998 | See Source »

...according to demand for the flight, with the goal of maximizing revenue). And the airlines have drained most of the spontaneity from the nation's leisure-time travel, with those money-saving but anxiety-producing "nonrefundable" fares, which require long advance purchases and slap heavy penalties for even a slight change in plans. (The Internet has lately helped reverse this a bit, offering customers a chance to bid for cheap last-minute fares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Flyers Fed Up? | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...these slight changes meant nothing to the hordes of disappointed students who waited outside of the Fogg Museum of Art trying to get into Historical Studies B-61, "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice." Or to the scores of frustrated students who might be lotteried out of Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improving the Core | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

Reggie Jackson (563 lifetime homers): "The harder one to strike out is McGwire. That is no slight to Sosa. That is based on the statistics. However Sosa is a higher average hitter." (center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 14, 1998 | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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