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...Fourth of July reminds me of long, dusky twilight evenings filled with conversation among friends I had seen all summer. It was a tradition while I was in high school to go out to the lake with a picnic basket and lots of Avon's Skin So Soft. (The mosquitos in Dallas are larger than most birds in Massachusetts). The fireworks lit up the modern skyline of downtown and reflected onto the lake. If we could successfully fend off the mosquitos and avoid the ants, we usually had a good time...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Independence Day: Past and Present in Historical Boston | 7/1/1994 | See Source »

...county school board when a cumulative election for that body knocked him off. "A lot of % people thought I had it made, so they split their votes," he says. "I've learned a lesson. With cumulative voting, you're running against everybody -- like you're a potato in a basket." The system, he claims, is fair to minorities but not majorities, "and ((white)) people don't like it. They don't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Person, Seven Votes | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...very squishy orange last week in my Canaday dorm room, I discovered that I needed a useless piece of something to protect my futon from the juice and sticky orange peels. I opened my door and luckily found an untouched copy of the Harvard Independent in the basket...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: A Place to Call Home | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

...addition, the Harvard Club of Chicago sent a fruit basket to the family, according to Alan H. Hammerman '55, the Chicago club president...

Author: By Christopher Ortega, | Title: Football Recruit Dies From Electrocution | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...back, it must have been Michael Young or Benny Anders, but I couldn't tell you which--flashed out to knock the ball out of Whittenburg's hands, and as the clock ticked down, the Wolfpack guard reached back, grabbed the ball and heaved it in desperation towards the basket...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: March Greatness | 3/15/1994 | See Source »

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