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...table and hid a contraband DeLonghi toaster-oven in it. I never used the oven; it just made me feel subversive. I also had an oriental rug and make-shift halogen spot lights which I turned on and off with a remote control. Sometimes the seniors would steal the clicker and conduct a light show for me from outside my door while I tried to do homework...

Author: By Jonathan S. Paul, | Title: Interior Design: Heavenly Inspiration | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...summer, but it's a bit easier to appreciate their interest and excitement about Harvard in the summer. After all, the grass is green, the sun is shining, the buildings look their best. And, of course, there is no homework to make you want to accost the nearest camera-clicker and say, "Hey, you want to do my problem sets...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Wishing You Were Here This Summer | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

...with the problem. And I still have to admit to tremendous jealousy of people doing normal, everyday actions. You know, just putting on a coat and walking down a hallway and opening a door and going outside. Rummaging around in the kitchen cabinet for forks and knives. Using the clicker to change channels on the TV. Taking the steps two at a time. All those things you'd think, you know, after a while you wouldn't even notice. I realize it's petty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...That was the clicker," Guerrero later told TIME. "They were in a hurry. I felt something was going to happen very soon." He radioed a hasty report to his headquarters, and then he and the two lookouts dashed down to the residential floor below, where they began pounding on doors and yelling, "Get out! Get out!" They made it only to the seventh floor before what Guerrero had feared would happen did happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GULF SHOCK WAVES | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...that he's a-school student and I don't think he notices me very much. In fact, I'm starting to get jealous of my pre-med roommates because they get more advising from him! Short of trading in my passion for medieval literature for a four-color clicker, I don't know how to wrench his attention away from them. Should I sit him down one night and explain what `chivalry' really means? --Grinding my teeth in Grays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extracurricular Extraordinaire | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

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