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Even though upperclass students might yawn when the Opportunes start snapping, the wide-eared Class of 2008 will be back in Sanders next September. There’s no denying a capella is catchy, and judging by ticket sales, audiences are coming back for more...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson and Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: All Jammed Up | 10/10/2003 | See Source »

...leaders,” Franken writes in his new best-selling book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. “Unless it was spending fireside evenings sipping sherry with great minds at the Faculty Club. Yawn...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Al Franken Talks 'Lies' | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

...libraries have begun to accept the material as legitimate reading. In fact in 1984 I did a five-page article in the School Library Journal begging them to include comics as a way of increasing the standards of the medium. Of course I was met with a loud yawn at the time, but since then libraries have begun to pick it up. And recently the Library Journal has been writing glowing remarks about [the medium.] So that prompted my statement that we are almost at the moment where we have become legitimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Never Too Late | 9/19/2003 | See Source »

...seems to understand, Asymptote tends to head the to-call list. As a result, most of the firm's architectural projects--it also dabbles in art--are not buildings but acrobatic proposals for buildings that push the limits of architectural theory. After all, in the computer, a building can yawn, swivel its hips and shimmy. No matter how much you subvert the principles of engineering, it won't crumble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Building Momentum | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

...yawn at the sight of another picture of Reed Krakoff, the executive creative director of Coach. True, the guy gets more press than Demi and Ashton, but he has turned the stodgy American brand favored by New Canaan, Conn., housewives and briefcase-toting free-lance writers into a global fashion status symbol. In fiscal year 2003 alone, Coach profits were up 67%. And while the rest of the retail industry was struggling with the effects of SARS, war in Iraq and unemployment, Krakoff was catapulting Coach from a half-a-billion-dollar company to a projected $1.1 billion company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 4. Reed Krakoff | 8/28/2003 | See Source »

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