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...where you live and what courses you take, Harvard has tried to eliminate differences based on personal resources, though of course it cannot wipe out all effects of personal differences in family means...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: The GOLD Coast | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

Besides being dull, the plot entirely fails to come together at the end. The Wheel of Fortune theme that seems to show such promise never comes through and seems ultimately unrelated to the novel's meaning. The idea of a man bent on causing apocalypse to wipe out the consumer society is little more than a regurgitation of long overused cliches. And neither is the message of Messiah any major surprise. The messiah saves the world through-what else?-love! Here is a safe and time tested-vision but one incapable of laying claim to any originality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Creole PI and Sarejevo Refugee Share Pleasure and the World Is Saved | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...this point, our team is the underdog because no one has seen us at our peak this season. Hopefully our time drops will act like a blitzkrieg to wipe out the Tigers...

Author: By Tim M. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Swimming Expects To Challenge For Ivy Silver | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...like food- and drugmakers). If you own too much stock in the company for which you've worked for decades--a common condition in these days of company stock options and company-stock matches in 401(k) plans--an unexpected setback for that company or its industry could wipe you out. Guy Cambie, a certified financial planner in Austin, Texas, urges investors to divorce themselves from the sentiment of any particular stock. One solution: mutual funds, in which, as Cambie notes, diversification is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: Retiring Well | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...have erupted from the Orange County youth-apparel industry to become globally recognized brands--among them, Quiksilver, Oakley, Billabong USA and Stussy. Yet just as many such labels--including Gotcha, Lightning Bolt, Vision Street Wear, Jimmy-Z, Maui & Sons, Mossimo and others--rode huge waves of sales only to wipe out in a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killer Profits In Velcro Valley | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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