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...Harvard men's water polo team generated enough offense to catch the eye of Andrew "Dice" Clay, rolling through St. Francis 25-13 and Queens College 19-8 in Northern Division play Saturday...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: CRIMSON SPORTS ROUNDUP | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...lost and wind up in the wrong neighborhood. They are also assumed to be carrying more cash -- and to be less likely to come back and testify if they are robbed. "When one officer asked a kid about his new Nike Air Jordan tennis shoes," says Miami police sergeant Clay Camil, "he remarked, 'Oh, a tourist bought those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell on Wheels | 8/16/1993 | See Source »

Proponents of the Cesar Chavez Workplace Fairness Act claim that employers provoke strikers so they can replace them with cheaper workers. Representative William L. Clay, D-Mo., the original sponsor of this legislation, claims that "employers provoke strikes to exploit the weakness in the law." He goes on to say that "intentional promotion of labor disputes by employers in order to bust unions undermines labor-management relations, the basic rights of workers, and the stability of our communities...

Author: By George Wang, | Title: Labor Bills: Paved With Good Intentions | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

...Paulhan or his friend the painter Jean Fautrier, what was he up to? Ironizing, certainly, on the idea of the portrait as effigy of virtue. But also -- despite his often repeated claim to reject tradition absolutely -- paying complete homage to an earlier French artist: Honore Daumier, whose tiny clay effigies of politico-literary notables known as Les Celebrites du Juste-Milieu, wizened, compressed and distorted, are the obvious and inescapable grandfathers of all Dubuffet's turnip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Outlaw Who Loved Laws | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...weeks ago, the town, which had chosen not to build a levee, was swamped by millions of gallons of murky water. Yet while Davenport flooded, the business district of nearby Rock Island, Illinois, barely got its feet wet. Reason: in 1971 Rock Island decided to build a rock-and-clay floodwall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Levees: Do They Work Too Well? | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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