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...hitch last year was that freshman didn't pick up the forms," said Dingman. As a result, housing staff were forced to locate and inform every student who had failed to collect the materials on time. Traditionally, only 90 to 100 students forget to pick up the forms, Colvin said...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Freshmen Begin Shortened Lottery, Must Pick Up Housing Forms Today | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...Assemblies of God stage show is being promoted with magazines that contain obscene pictures in their centerfolds. Jimmy cries out in protest but is ignored. He bows to weep, and when he looks up again, the auditorium is empty. The floor is littered with debris, which Jimmy starts to collect. When someone asks him what he is doing, the evangelist responds, "I am trying to clean up the church. I am trying to clean up the church." Perhaps, at last, cleanup time has really come around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now It's Jimmy's Turn | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

University officials also will collect and sell the equipment necessary for such a connection by telephone, the administrator said. The package, which includes a modem and the software required for such a telephone link, will be available at the Office of Information and Technology (OIT) this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Libraries to Offer Computer Access | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

...tossed Gordeeva so effortlessly around the rink. Twinned by Moscow's Central Army Sports Club six years ago, neither has ever had another partner. Yet they spend little time together off the ice. Grinkov is 21, and his tastes run to books and ice hockey, while Gordeeva likes to collect toys, sew and surprise her teammates with batches of home-baked cookies. "We just practice together," says Grinkov. Romantics can take heart that perhaps it is just the age difference. Gordeeva is, after all, only 16. With her wide-eyed fawn's gaze, she is still a giggly high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brian Boitano : This Soldier's No Toy | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...garage. The woman's books were piled there in a heap, like they had been dumped from a truck, Kelly says. When a specimen was needed from the top, its owner would gather her skirts in one hand and scale up the sliding slope with the other to collect it. Coming down, the practical woman simply slid. "I was so stunned," Kelly says. "No matter where you go in the English-speaking world, you can find books," Kelly says...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: On Books, Respect, And Time | 2/27/1988 | See Source »

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