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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friends at other schools brag about their $0.10 plans," says Michael A. Blaustein '02. "I think Harvard should definitely negotiate and get a better deal...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Phoning Home: Students Decry Hefty International Rates | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...often that politicians wine and dine other politicians and then brag about it in press releases and television appearances...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hub Uses Harvard, Glitz to Entice 2000 Dem. Convention | 10/1/1998 | See Source »

...scene in Montreal in late July included lots of late-night shots of whiskey, 100 comics being ignored by the public while Emmanuel Lewis (TV's Webster) signed autographs and veteran dork-for-hire comic Kevin Meaney dropped his fake high voice to brag about a development meeting. The business of comedy was summed up by festival standout Mitch Hedberg, who was introduced as a comedian "seen on David Letterman." He said, "Four million people watch that show, and I don't know where the hell they are. I believe more people have seen me at the store. Which would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...duties are simple: you have an obligation to earn your dinner by asking questions of the person on the right and then listening carefully to the answers. People want to talk about themselves. Sometimes that is even interesting. Keep it light. Don't talk too much. Don't brag. Interview fellow guests as if you were, say, David Letterman or Jay Leno, except without the wisecracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monica Who? | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...middle school yearbook, Kinkel was jokingly voted "most likely to start World War III." "He was really open about making bombs," confides T.J. Harty, 13. "Once he showed me a pipe bomb with a white fuse and said, 'I'm going to blow something up.'" Kip would brag about cutting up cats and squirrels and even claimed to have blown up a cow. Like many local teenagers, he hunted deer, with a rifle his father gave him last year. He seemed to take pleasure in killing. "Other kids say, 'I got a deer,'" recalls Lindsay Parr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy Who Loved Bombs | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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