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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arbitrary nature of meaning seems more the state of mind of a language philosopher or an applied linguist (i.e. of a post-deconstruction academic) rather than a young adolescent. The issues that haunt Pella are the stuff of very recent debate and need to seep through a whole super-structure for a teenager to unknowingly apply them in her everyday life-even if she is "mature for her age," as other characters describe her. Pella might thereby embody a prophetic vision on Lethem's part: a future generation entirely immersed in the indeterminacy of meaning...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Identity and Ambiguity: Letham's Portrait of the West | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...years' experience and member of the Ehrkern String Quartet. "People who have most of their technical faculties in place, but still need some fine-tuning...should undoubtedly go to a music school where they can practice for hours and hours and become fantastic musicians. [For] the ones without super-human musical abilities, the decision is that much harder to make...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Is There Any Glory in Avoiding the Conservatory? Yo-Yo Ma '76 Did It, and You Can Too | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...addition, each S&D team member is equipped with two large Nerf guns. The team says the Super Maxx 1500, with a rotating bullet chamber, is a particularly popular model. One member of the team has evenbeen known to strap a Nerf rocket launcher,accurate up to 100 feet, to his belt...

Author: By Linnea E. Housewright, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Natural Born Killers Stalk Quincy House in Do-or-Die Game | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

Long. Those in the know use the super-swank digital terminals downstairs...

Author: By Emily N. Tabak, | Title: Where the Cool Kids Go...To Check Email | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

Cahill identified the "super majority" provisions, which require both Catholic and Protestant politicians in a new bipartisan assembly to approve legislation, as the treaty's most important innovation. Both sides, he said, received part of what they wanted in the accord, which is intended to end the violence over British rule in Northern Ireland...

Author: By Shatema A. Threadcraft, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Irish Activist Expresses His Optimism for Peace | 4/14/1998 | See Source »

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