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Though things in Cambridge looked pretty much the same as last year, quite a bit had changed. Much to my father's chagrin, we couldn't repeat last year's successful race to be the first car in the Yard. Instead, I awoke in Albany, New York on that fateful Friday to sheets of rain outside. A leaky trunk and a bicycle strapped to the car, along with the prospect of sopping computers, books, and clothes when I moved in, pretty much ruined the day. By the time I arrived and was sentenced to Jordan, I barely flinched...

Author: By John E. Stafford, | Title: A Dubious Welcome--to the Quad | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...chagrin of big U.S. steel companies, the U.S. International Trade Commission cleared foreign steel firms of most of the pending charges that they had engaged in unfair trade practices. As a result, most of the stiff tariffs on foreign steel imposed last month by the Commerce Department will be rescinded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest July 25-31 | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...chagrin Nunn's revision caused Clinton, who endorsed it later on Friday, it made little difference to the future hopes and strategies of Stoddard and his allies, which are firmly -- if perhaps vainly -- pinned to the court system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: See You in Court | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...interim Undergraduate Technical Director of the Loeb Theatre learned yesterday he will not receive the job permanently, much to the chagrin of students who say he is crucial to dramatics at the College...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Students Upset Over ART Ouster | 4/30/1993 | See Source »

...above resorting to tricks familiar to every student, such as rushing over to another object after choosing the wrong one, or positioning themselves at some ambiguous midpoint between two choices with the apparent hope that the trainer will say "Right!" On occasion, when wrong, they will take their chagrin out on the object and beat a hoop or basket as though it were at fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Animals Think? | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

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