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...Department of English Languages and Literatures scraped the bottom of the advising barrel, receiving a score of 1.97 out of a possible five points on a survey of graduating seniors...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: English Department Nearly Doubles Advising Score | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...Despite Stevens's complaint that "it's not much fun rummaging through a bathroom garbage pail," he did so admirably. And in the garbage can, he found his wallet with its contents strewn around the barrel along with a pair of shoes from another room. (Earlier that morning, Rubin had noticed the sneakers in the trash, but thought little of it, thinking just that they were somebody's "old kicks.") At the bottom of the barrel, Stevens found Gibson's backpack with his TI-86 calculator and history of the USSR notebook. Stevens' Harvard I.D., his debit card...

Author: By Ben C. Wasserstein, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Waking Up to Crime in Matthews Hall | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...overexcited about campaign finance reform. It?s the North Star of whatever presidential hopes he still has these days, and here, finally, was his (and Russ Feingold?s) perennially quixotic bill, on the Senate floor for six days of full debate. The spate of pump-priming jeremiads about pork-barrel bills and soft-money corruption that McCain posted on his web site must have seemed utterly appropriate ? but not to Mitch McConnell. "Someone must be corrupt for there to be corruption," McConnell said on Thursday, challenging McCain to come forth with specific charges against individual senators. "How can there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Hard Road Ahead For Soft-Money Ban | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...These guys hate McCain," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "They think he?s sanctimonious, and their seats are so safe that they risk absolutely nothing with a free walloping." And this time the maverick brought it on himself. "McCain tripped up," says Dickerson. "By bringing up specific pork barrel projects ?- which are a problem but not nearly as serious as, say, a big tax break to an industry that contributes millions to a party ? his rhetoric outstripped the larger, valid point he?s trying to make. So they jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Hard Road Ahead For Soft-Money Ban | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...bridge came under repeated enemy attack. The G.I.s regularly fired bursts over the heads of the cowering civilians. "But then we were ordered to kill them all," Edward Daily of Clarksville, Tenn., then a corporal in the 7th Cavalry Regiment's 2nd Battalion, told TIME. "So I lowered the barrel and kept firing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bridge at No Gun Ri | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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