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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rowing and life from his personal experience. The book begins to read like a catalogue of cliches, as Lambert winds up each vignette with trite observations that ring faintly of Chicken Soup for the Soul: "To find our calling, we must listen to all of these inner voices, which speak from, and to, the soul," and "strong teams balance variety with unity around a clear sense of purpose," are some of the reflections and advice he offers. Such messages as these, certainly obvious, border on the banal, and truly say nothing unique or compelling...

Author: By Leah A. Plunkett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crew Is Life; The Rest Is Just Details | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

Thanks to the blond twerp and his fucking high-powered weapon, a bullet slams into the top of my head, leaving me stunned and cowering on the slimy floor. I raise my gun and shuffle out of the field, unable to speak coherently. Santino, concerned, asks how I am, but I wave him away. I'm tough...

Author: By Evelyn H. Sung, | Title: RAINBOW WARRIOR | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

Beyond his achievement and journalistic prowess, Georges' classmates speak of his sense of humor and charisma. Georges was selected by his class to deliver the humorous Ivy Oration on graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Top Journalist Georges Dies of Lupus | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

Events sponsored by WISHR are open to both men and women interested in learning more about the sciences. WISHR will hold its next general meeting on Nov. 18, at which Cynthia Friend, Richards professor of chemistry, is scheduled to speak...

Author: By Roberto Bailey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women in Science Share Research Projects | 10/21/1998 | See Source »

...June 1995 meeting with the tough-talking software titan and his cohorts, "I expected to find a bloody computer monitor in my bed," the browser whiz kid told Justice Department lawyers. But as the Microsoft antitrust trial enters its third day, Redmond attorneys continue to argue that brutal mafia-speak is no vice in the cuttthroat software industry. "Antitrust laws," said Microsoft counsel John Warden, "are not a code of civility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Microsoft Mafia | 10/21/1998 | See Source »

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