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...Friday, Lloyd says, the campers get to have some fun--along with an awards presentation, the kids perform skits and other acts, as well as choosing one instructor and one camper to be doused with ice water...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The Sound of Summer: Thwack! | 8/19/1994 | See Source »

...compromise was in the air at congressional hearings last week, as Senators mugged for the cameras and traded contraband bottles of Happy Camper and Manhood Plus. Even Hatch was in a forgiving mood, conceding that his bill "may not adequately address the safety issue" and admitting that "the language is not drawn tightly enough to prevent false and misleading claims." ^ Insiders say congressional leaders are working on revised bills that would ensure easy access to vitamins but support strict policing of labels for fraudulent claims, giving protesters and the Hollywood crowd what they want while providing the FDA and consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad About Vitamins | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...couldn't show you the fall line of skeletons in Rudnick's closet, because he came out of it long ago. He seems wildly well adjusted, at ease with his career, his sexuality, his place on earth. He is a happy camper and a nonstop talker; he's like a character in his novel Social Disease, who "had pledged a lifelong vow of chatter, as surely as Trappists chose silence." He writes what he wants, and people like it. He eats what he wants -- a deplorable diet of M&M's and bagels -- yet has a slim figure and good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laughing on The Inside Too: PAUL RUDNICK | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...legislation designed to deal with hate also becomes harder to justify when applied to threats -- but not to acts -- of violence. One of those laws became an issue in a major Ohio case that grew out of a 1989 incident at a public campground near Columbus. A black camper, Jerry White, complained to a park ranger about loud music coming from the neighboring campsite of David Wyant, a white man. After the park ranger left, Wyant shouted threats to shoot the "niggers." He was eventually charged with and convicted of aggravated menacing, a misdemeanor. But because his threat fell under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Hate Makes a Fist | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...fact, Berry says he too is a "camper," that he doesn't "like it either way." Okay, then, how about something in between, oh Messiah of not-so-long-ago, like a nice sign asking people to be considerate? Or how about putting in more tables? There is plenty of room. The Greenhouse serves Harvard affiliates only. It should start acting less like a business and more like a service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coffee Bouncers | 11/20/1992 | See Source »

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