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...Bush Republicans were in charge last August in Houston. Why did the GOP bend over backward to accomodate a group which would harm its November chances...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FIGHT ON THE RIGHT? | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

...League title is technically still within reach, but the Crimson cannot expect Dartmouth, Columbia and Princeton to bend to Harvard's will...

Author: By John B. Roberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ailing M. Booters Host Green | 10/31/1992 | See Source »

...Wilson's office. We'll print an interview with the eminent biologist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner next week. He has a new book out on, well, LIFE. Very broad, considering that his latest book was the seminal history and classification of ants. So much more pleasant to bend over a glass cage filled with swarming and busy little ants than wrestle through the annoying crew fans in the Square. Not that observing the crew fans is much different from starting at an ant farm. In both cases, brawling little creatures bubble up from a little hole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ants | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...taking a fresh look at the one component that has hardly changed since the earliest days of computing -- or, for that matter, the earliest days of typewriting 125 years ago. The result is a new crop of alternative keyboards that take the standard flat, rectangular input device and bend, split, fold and twist it almost beyond recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building A Better Keyboard | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...Navy Discharge. Perot, an Annapolis graduate, claims that he cut short his Navy hitch because his commanding officer wanted him to bend or break shipboard rules. The officer, now retired, flatly denies this. Another Perot explanation -- that he was shocked to discover that sailors used profane language -- belongs in the "didn't inhale" category...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whole Truth and Nothing But? | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

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