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...Cambridge community was greatly saddened by his death, with shock akin to that of Sam-I-Am discovering that he liked green eggs...

Author: By Sara A. Bibel, | Title: Theodor 'Dr. Seuss' Geisel Dies | 9/26/1991 | See Source »

...hint about the content of the games they see on store shelves. That would both warn consumers away from potentially offensive games and reassure them about the wholesomeness of others. In fact, Williams chaired a committee of the Software Publishers Association that considered a system of rating computer games akin to the way movies are classified. But software publishers are noted for their independence, and they could not reach a consensus. The best they could do was to urge members to describe clearly on the package what appears on the disk. That is what Sierra On-Line has done with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erotic Electronic Encounters | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...program because former Dean of Freshmen Henry C. Moses thought his lots-o-laughs approach to plagiarism was "undignified.") In fact, the seminar is no longer limited to plagiarism. It now covers the "serious disciplinary abuses" of plagiarism and date rape, which, if you ask me, is somewhat akin to a seminar on jaywalking and genocide...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Don't Shade Your Eyes! | 9/8/1991 | See Source »

...Yeltsin's increasingly critical tone, Gorbachev in late 1987 forced him out of the Politburo and humiliated him at a closed plenum of the Moscow party committee, after Yeltsin had made an impassioned plea for greater democracy. On Moscow streets the news of his downfall was greeted with something akin to mourning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rising Star: The Man Who Rules Russia | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

...undermine his fair trial rights." Even if the evidence is disallowed, notes Neal Sonnett, a criminal defense lawyer in Miami, "I doubt seriously that there will be very many prospective jurors who will not have heard or read about these latest revelations. The notion that Willy Smith is something akin to a serial rapist is bound to prejudice them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Palm Beach Rape Case: Then There Were Three | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

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