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Though Harvard went on to lose the game 3-2, the masterpiece woven by Ronz did not go unnoticed by his teammates...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In-Fall-ibly Speaking: Young Guns Provide Bright Spot for Baseball | 5/3/2000 | See Source »

DIED. ANTHONY POWELL, 94, British social-comic novelist, whose richly woven 12-volume A Dance to the Music of Time chronicles the genteel manners and morals of Britain's upper-middle class from World War I to the 1970s; in Frome, England. One of Britain's 20th century greats, Powell was the last of the Brideshead generation of writers that included Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and George Orwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 10, 2000 | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...living is easy. You glide forward on a magic carpet woven out of detailed data and statistical analyses. But should anyone seize access to your electronic life story, "invasion of privacy" will take on a whole new meaning. The thief will have stolen not only your past and present but also a reliable guide to your future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Have Any Privacy Left? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

Indeed so. For it also provided something quite unrelated to disabilities: a lucrative tax break for banks, insurers and financial-service companies. A provision woven into the legislation allowed the foreign subsidiaries of these businesses to extend the income-tax-free status of foreign earnings from the sale of securities, annuities and other financial holdings. Among the big winners: American International Group Inc., an insurance giant, as well as the recently formed Citigroup. Overall, the tax break will cost the U.S. Treasury $1.5 billion in the next two years, just as it did in the past two years. The amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The Little Guy Gets Crunched | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...Although the films deal with such diverse subjects as pet cemeteries (Gates of Heaven, 1978), Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time, 1992) and an autistic professor designer of human slaughterhouses (Stairway to Heaven, 1998), certain themes appear repeatedly, emerging from the tightly woven web of humor, philosophy and idiosyncrasy that is Morris' signature like ghosts of questions past, resurrected and back for more...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Executioner's Song: Portrait of the Artist | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

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