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...through." He hikes to the spot near Bazaar where, in 1931, the Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne and seven other men died in a plane crash, after which local people carried pieces off for keepsakes. A woman tells him about running a health-food restaurant in a little burg called Cottonwood Falls: "We never did get the farmers to eat alfalfa sprouts. They know silage when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking Old Tom's Grand Grid | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...Letters from an American Farmer), is about two-fifths aqueous, which is just enough. Raban sets out from Liverpool in a giant container ship, discovers that the ocean is even larger -- good storm action here -- and then burrows for several weeks each in Manhattan, a small and sleepy Alabama burg called Guntersville and our last frontier, Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping A Weather Eye | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...These were important considerations. I knew he was resigning," Burg said. He said he was aware of Alexander's "unhappiness being here," and said that his new position was a higher ranked...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Brandeis Dean Resigns Post | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

While some students at Brandeis have called Alexander's departure a symbol of administrative neglect of minority concerns, Burg said that the university intended to find a replacement to fill the position quickly, despite a hiring freeze. "We do have a commitment," he said...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Brandeis Dean Resigns Post | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Alexander's position was created two years ago along with an Intercultural Library at Brandeis in response to demands of minority students, Burg said. Alexander was hired in August...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Brandeis Dean Resigns Post | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

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