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...meeting came a day after signs were posted by a number of students, including some RUS members, attacking the new club called "the Cliff...

Author: By Deborah Steinberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: RUS Objects to Alleged Creation of Social Club | 2/1/1992 | See Source »

Condors find food in open flatlands where shrubbery will not hamper takeoffs. They used to live on cliff tops around California's Central Valley and fly to lowlands where hunters shot deer and left "gut piles" full of bullet fragments of toxic lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can They Go Home Again? | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

...more flexible Turner made a variety of sacrifices. He left his wife (the final divorce settlement in 1988 cost him $40 million) and gave up philandering. After moving in with Ebaugh, he agreed to spend more time with her in California and even bought a cliff-hanging house in Big Sur. The couple split up two years later. By the time he started dating Fonda in early 1990, however, Turner was so reformed that the first thing he told the actress when he took her out was, "I want you to know I was brought up a male chauvinist." Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taming of Ted Turner | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...need to paraphrase, simplify and contextualize large theoretical ideas in order to use them in a 5-7 page paper due several hours in the future. That's why we have books of "Great Thoughts," "Bartlett's Quotations" and Cliff Notes. Needless to say, in the crunch, a lot of the meaning gets lost and we end up sounding muddled...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: I Sold My Soul to Derrida | 11/26/1991 | See Source »

...making you more alone, arrogant, adventure-seeking or adulterous. You strive and strive and get more; then you wonder, "How would I ever know if I am loved independent of my success? If everything was gone?" In a very primitive way, they almost have to dive off the cliff to test it. The televangelists seemed to be begging for it all to end. There's a pressure keeping up the narcissistic facade and masking the depression. These are not happy people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: STEVEN BERGLAS | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

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