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Magazine covers portrayed her as the prototype of an "Angry White Female," critics attributed her success to an ability to "tap into the inner frustrations and rage of females," and music industry execs simply waited for her fifteen minutes of fame to tick away...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: You Oughta Know the softer side of ALANIS | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...according to Coordinator of Student Activities Susan T. Cooke, council treasurers are regularly "made aware of [their] balance" in addition to their annual term-bill revenues whenever they tap term-bill funds...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Questions Surround Found Council Funds | 11/4/1998 | See Source »

...junk" bonds. I have avoided junk for years because too many weak companies were able to borrow at rates only slightly higher than those paid by the strongest debtors. Confidence in the economy ran so high that even companies with no hope of making a profit this decade could tap the markets cheaply. Junk-bond investors weren't getting paid enough for their risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession? Not! | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...turn on your computer and head to the World Wide Web. Before you know it, you are scrolling through primary document after primary document, comparing 20 different Chinese silkscreens, and trying to decide which database to tap into...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hitting the Superhighway | 10/29/1998 | See Source »

Spelling then offered her Charmed, a dramatic series about three young sisters who wear slip dresses, complain about dating and in the premiere episode, discover they are witches. The series, which has drawn surprisingly good ratings, manages to tap into TV's current fascination with the occult (The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) while recalling the classic three-babe structure of Spelling's '70s hit Charlie's Angels. Here, Doherty would seem to fit into the Jaclyn Smith mold--easily the most beautiful one but not necessarily the sexiest. (Alyssa Milano gets the Farrah Fawcett-Majors pinup part, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Time, She's a Good Witch | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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