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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right track, but this isn't lran. T. Christopher King Passionately promises building healthier community at Harvard. But like the hair, he just seems a little too slick. Henry C. Quillen Rhetorical style not quite as interesting as the "Scream" costume, but we applaud the late display of Halloween spirit. Michelle Robinson Makes us listen to the sounds of silence in a strange three-word opening. Stunt to appear different impresses no one. Noah Z. Seton Deflects accusations of excessive Stewartship in true presidential style. Also wins Best Hair in Show award. Ted A. Swasey Claims...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Wisdom | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

...Oswald the Rabbit, was stolen from him. That, naturally, reinforced his impulse to control. It also opened the way for the mouse that soared. Cocky, and in his earliest incarnations sometimes cruelly mischievous but always an inventive problem solver, Mickey would become a symbol of the unconquerably chipper American spirit in the depths of the Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walt Disney: Ruler Of The Magic Kingdom | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...cartels by and large fail. A member is more inclined to cheat the group the more successfully the group drives up his price. When Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys cut a side deal with Pepsi to become the official drink of Texas Stadium, thus violating at least the spirit of the lucrative agreement the NFL had cut with Coca-Cola, he was playing the same game as the renegade Libyan oil industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETE ROZELLE: Football's High Commissioner | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Morita had been groomed since the third grade to become the successor of a 14-generation family business: a prominent sake-brewing company in Nagoya. In true entrepreneurial spirit, however, he traded this life of comfort and privilege for the uncertainties of a start-up, called Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, Inc., in the rubble of postwar Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AKIO MORITA: Guru Of Gadgets | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Netanyahu -- in the spotlight of Palestinian anger. At least 40 people were wounded Monday in clashes over the prisoner release issue, but Israel's freeing of petty thieves rather than political prisoners is in keeping with the letter of the Wye Accord. "Arafat may complain that it violates the 'spirit' of Wye, but there was no spirit in this agreement," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The accord was negotiated in bad faith and neither side will do anything they're not compelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palestinians Target Arafat | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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