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Harvard was better, much better. But just as the Royals could never beat the Yankees in the late 1970s, and just as the current Braves seem to have a complex about the American League, the Crimson simply could not close the Tigers' casket...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Mind Games | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...both dissent and liberty, Deng can be declared an enemy of students. All that is necessary evidence to understand this fact is that he personally ordered the shooting of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Now think of poor, dead Deng, all cooped up in his glass casket. There is no need to weep for him, America...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Enemies of Students | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

...Nixon can be declared an enemy of students. All that is necessary evidence to understand this fact is that he may as well have personally ordered the shooting of anti-war protesters at Kent State in 1970. Now think of poor, dead Nixon, all cooped up in his wooden casket. There is no need to weep for him, America...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Enemies of Students | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

...Wisconsin you can buy a Packers casket for $2,495. Actually, many people in the N.F.L. in the '80s thought the Packers belonged in a pine box, along with the idea of a small town owning a team. But in 1992 Harlan hired general manager Ron Wolf, who hired coach Mike Holmgren, who unleashed the potential in a backup quarterback acquired from the Atlanta Falcons named Brett Favre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEADERS OF THE PACK | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...fact, the consolidators have driven prices so high in some markets that they have opened new opportunities for the growing alternative-funeral industry. Russell Moore, a cultural anthropologist, located his Casket Gallery International--which sells low-priced caskets--on the outskirts of Dallas. He based it there precisely because SCI, Loewen and Stewart had such a huge presence in the region. "Many families are literally being priced out of the funeral industry," he says. "They're choosing cremation, or they're trying to do it themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FIGHT TO THE DEATH | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

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