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Seven games into the season, the Crimson has equaled its win total of last year, and as a result of recent success is ranked twentieth in the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Soccer Red Hot, Ready For Eagles | 10/9/1996 | See Source »

...doesn't really need to say this. As his "Saturday Night Live" character would say, "You know it, I know, the American people know it." The same applies for Dole's erstwhile discussion of his economic plan. For Teddy Roosevelt, the Republican president in the first year of the twentieth century, the issue was trusts. For Bob Dole, who hopes to be the Republican president in the last year of the twentieth century, the issue is trust. It is no accident that his soon to be best-selling campaign tract is entitled "Trusting the People." Dole wastes no opportunity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stuck in the Middle With You | 10/8/1996 | See Source »

...from television and cable, from abroad and even from commercial tie-ups in theaters, to make them worthwhile. In earlier years, Hollywood didn't spend $5 million to $25 million to launch each major studio film. When I was a studio publicist, we used publicity and promotion, at one-twentieth the cost of ads. Each of the eight major Hollywood studios could save $30 million annually by alerting audiences through publicity, wholesale purchases of radio time and on the Internet. The trick is to get into enough minds the idea that a movie to see is coming. If this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1996 | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...machine. He has long been fascinated with evolutionary psychology--a field that views the brain as a mechanism built by the genes and shaped by natural selection--and has written extensively about it, both in his 1994 book, The Moral Animal, and in a TIME cover story last August, "Twentieth Century Blues." In this week's cover story, contributor Wright examines the philosophical questions raised by "artificial intelligences" such as Deep Blue, the chess-playing computer that nearly defeated the human world champion, Garry Kasparov. In addition, Kasparov writes about the moment during the match when he first sensed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Mar. 25, 1996 | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...much of the twentieth century, Southern whites wasted much of their energy on constructing and enforcing a system of apartheid. While black Southerners were creatively and subversively turning their misery into enduring American art forms such as the blues and jazz, most Southern whites were so crippled by inbred cultural racism that they could barely demonstrate that they were morally or intellectually superior to brute beasts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confederate Flags Must Vanish | 3/5/1996 | See Source »

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