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...building stage still in our program, but we are on our way," Stone said at midseason. "I foresee it being a coin toss next year, and who knows what will happen after that. It might be a Harvard dynasty pretty soon...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Returns to ECACs, Plants Seeds for Next Season | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...plays baseball," says Jan Tulk, an attorney, during her fourth trip to Foodini's. "I'd say I end up cooking about half the time. The rest of the week it's usually fast food. This [pizza, clam chowder, salad] is a lot healthier." Although just a gourmet-pizza toss from the gas pump, Foodini's is decidedly upscale: light jazz, vodka-blush pasta sauce and not a microwave burrito in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy Of Not Cooking | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...that dreaded time in gadgetry again: you're going to have to choose between competing technologies. Did you bet Beta or VHS? Did you do Windows or bite into Macintosh? What call did you make on cellular vs. PCS phones? The next coin toss is in photography, in which a new line of digital cameras that store pictures on memory chips rather than film is fighting it out with Advanced Photo System models, an innovative take on traditional 35-mm film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dual Focus In Cameras | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...User Illusion was obviously not written in the interests of the average "Wheel of Fortune" viewer, but beyond the book’s grand foray into consciousness lies a simple admonition: redundancy hurts, for less is much, much more. Do not say more than necessary; do not toss superfluous words into written communication, and, if you are a game show contestant with any shred of sensibility, never buy the vowels, You will just be wasting your money, and it does not take a world-class physicist or mathematician to realize that what the letter following that "q" must be. Norretranders...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Value of a Vowel | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

...into a White House-led conversation on the subject. If there's anything this overheated issue does not need, it's more touchy-feely rhetoric and posturing from Washington. There are no subjects that we debate more incessantly--and pointlessly--than race relations, unless it's sports and politics. Toss the three together on cable TV in an attempt to grab a big audience of sports-addicted males, and the result can be vacuity on an Olympian scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trash Talk on Sports | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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