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Kotowski said after the suspect failed to grab the purse, he started to accost the couple...

Author: By David L. Greene and Anne C. Krendl, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Police Storm Quincy Courtyard, Arrest Suspect | 9/16/1997 | See Source »

...multiply in the summer, but it's a bit easier to appreciate their interest and excitement about Harvard in the summer. After all, the grass is green, the sun is shining, the buildings look their best. And, of course, there is no homework to make you want to accost the nearest camera-clicker and say, "Hey, you want to do my problem sets...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Wishing You Were Here This Summer | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

...street, the homeless are both more and less aggressive in Hungary than they are in Cambridge. Homeless men sit in squares and drink, rarely approaching passers-by. Women, meanwhile, accost tourists and others with an aggressiveness that would put Cambridge's "Hello there, young man!" Spare Change dealer to shame. These women, without fail, move about in groups, bear very small children on their arms and dress in gypsy-style wraps and shawls. They come to you begging, pointing to their children, and literally hang on your arm for two blocks waiting for money. They even enter restaurants...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: A Post-Communist Summer | 6/27/1997 | See Source »

...Vocal Performance (one of three Lion King Grammys). He's the prohibitive favorite to win an Oscar later this month: of the five nominees for Best Original Song, three are numbers from The Lion King. And he has a new generation of groupies: the six-year-olds who accost him in airports and tell him they love the movie's songs. "That's exactly what I wrote it for," he says. "I wanted to write melodies that kids would like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROARING BACK | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

...that time, I had passively accepted the fact that, unless I summoned the courage to accost a professor during office hours, I would never know a tenured member of the University nor would he or she ever know my work. (For all our parents know, we could just as well buy the videotapes of Harvard lectures that people are marketing in high brow magazines these days...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: Not Big Enough For All of Us | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

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