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...Mart's website so crummy? Product selection has improved recently, but it's still puny. The design is underwhelming; search and navigation tools are weak. And don't try returning something bought online to a store. "It's the biggest toy seller in the country, and its toy site is terrible," says Forrester Research analyst David Cooperstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for Wal-Mart | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Jesse Ventura, eating a banana and a granola bar. He's still miffed about that damn Playboy interview, the one that sent his polls plummeting. "That was my fault in simply not saying 'some,'" he explains. "Had I simply said some religions are a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people, probably not that much would have been made of it." Ventura is peeved that belittlers, like Gary Bauer and Geraldine Ferraro, have dubbed him a bigot. "I looked it up," Ventura says of the word. "It's someone who's intolerable [Jesse's Yogi Berraism] of any other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Ventura: Keeping His Eye on The Ball | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has made a weak effort to fill the void of multi-ethnic course offerings by creating an Expository Writing course titled "Biculturalism and American Identity," and having a handful of social studies and sociology courses dealing with multiculturalism and racial identity. But these seem to be only token gestures, made in a futile attempt to appear accepting of diversity. It is almost as though the College chooses to ignore the 16 percent of students who refuse to fit into just one of the boxes on the application...

Author: By Lorrayne S. Ward, | Title: Finding a Space for Multiracial Students | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...scandal. People will be alienated and upset if either both Driskell and Burton are allowed to assume office or if they are both barred from holding office. I believe that a compromise such as the one listed above is needed for the good of the already ailing and extremely weak council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

Because the Polar Lander was built by Lockheed Martin as well, and because it was to use Climate Orbiter as a communications relay, the panel looked into that probe too--and found the same weak management. "A recurring theme in the board's deliberations," reads the report, "was one of 'Who's in charge?'" It also raised questions about the probe's landing technology, which was complex, risky and largely untested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mars Reconsidered | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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