Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson is cautious beyond measure, as guarded with the press as she is with all but her closest friends. She answers pointed questions with a mixture of stock phrases and abstractions. Wilson recently described her 10-year-long presidency at a full Faculty meeting as "a multidimensional inclined plane...
...what's the point, exactly? Laying aside the possible technological implications of Y2K, what is so important about a new year, a new century, a new millennium? Our world is one constantly taking stock, measuring itself against arbitrary (and self-imposed) standards of achievement and progress, and time is an easy standard by which to measure...
...have taken care of most of the graduation-season logistics: burning books, laughing at underclass students and issuing stock market shares in our souls to loan officers. What remains, however, is the big question: Just what was our Harvard experience all about? For the purpose of argument, ignore the water torture and Grade Z beef-like substance we have been forced to endure...
...Even Microsoft, famed for its stock-option millionaires, is losing talent to Internet easy money. Yesterday the Seattle Times reported that the company's head of MSN Access, John Ludwig, is taking an extended leave of absence. It's not clear that he's headed for a Net newcomer, but that's exactly what others before him have done. Last summer Peter Neupert, one of Microsoft's biggest new media advocates, left to run Drugstore.com, a site now backed by Amazon. MORE...
...whose 127 million voters are scattered across 14,000 islands from a military dictatorship into a democracy was never going to be easy, but the General Election Committee had promised to complete half the count by Tuesday -? and by Wednesday night it had tallied only 7 percent. Indonesia?s stock exchange hit a two-year record high on Tuesday, buoyed by the strong showing of opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri, but it resumed its slide Wednesday as everyone from opposition leaders, Western election monitors and even by the leader of the military-backed ruling party, President B. J. Habibie, expressed concern...