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...Harvard knows well enough that being the favorite can hurt more than it can help: the Crimson got a scare from Boston College and a shot in the arm from the Catamounts. The laxmen will have to play tight defense against a potentially explosive Panther attack if they hope to bring a win back to Cambridge...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Adelphi Poses 'Immense' Challenge to Struggling Laxmen | 4/13/1991 | See Source »

...note from the Internal Revenue Service. It was a nice note, as these things go. The IRS computer has definitely been through charm school in recent years. But "as a result of an error we have corrected on Schedule E of your return, you owe IRS . . . ((an arm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles Dear IRS . . . | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

Well, actually it wasn't an arm and a leg. More like a finger. Still, because I had done my return with one of those computer software packages that promises no mistakes (and because my name and face were on that computer software package), I was more than a little curious to know just what the error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles Dear IRS . . . | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

Jazz life on dream street: days of drizzly twilight, long spiky nights of taking a nick off Nirvana with a piano run or a horn solo, walking arm in arm into a rainy dawn with your next sad love affair. Meanwhile, real life on ! Lawrence Street: a two-story frame house in a working-class neighborhood of Washington. The den extension and the enlarged kitchen were not built by the man of the house, Shep Deering, but by his wife, who is handy with a hammer and saw. Her husband of 35 years still works as a mechanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Her Own Sweet Time | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...would be a great shot in the arm to the humanities at Harvard to have a humanist as president," says Professor of English Marjorie Garber, who is also the Faculty's associate dean for affirmative action...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: Neil L. Rudenstine: Renaissance Scholar, Mellon Foundation Vice President And, Quite Possibly, The Next President Of Harvard | 3/22/1991 | See Source »

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