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Here at Harvard, we love to complain about our barren dating-scene. The hopeless plight of the single, we hear again and again, is to suffer mortifying awkwardness or to remain forever alone. We are all familiar with the “is-this-a-date?” dinner at Border Café, and we can at least sympathize with those desperate folks in FM, caught mid-hookup with someone they probably did not know and wish they did not remember...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: Dartboard | 10/16/2002 | See Source »

...need of antidepressants. Some simply never wanted to share power with Catholics. Others think putting Sinn Fein in government rewarded the I.R.A. for its campaign of terror. But most talk about the peace process failing to live up to their expectations. Even though violence has been cut dramatically, unionists complain that they've swallowed police reform and the release of paramilitary prisoners in the belief that they would see bigger gestures in return, like true I.R.A. disarmament or a declaration that the war is over. They are suspicious that the I.R.A. is hanging around in case politics doesn't further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for a Fight | 10/13/2002 | See Source »

...funny, and it doesn’t distract me at all. I usually just order what I want, and it tends to fit in with one of their personalities, so I just ignore all the different names of the burgers. I don’t know why people complain about the waitstaff. I don’t think they’re that weird. My only gripe is that they should stay open later on weekdays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Love it or Hate it: Mr. Bartley's | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...same year he was sentenced to six years imprisonment, later reduced to four, for the 1996 beating of a black farm worker that left the man paralyzed. Though still virulently racist, the AWB has mostly become a beer-drinking club for Afrikaners who still want to wear uniforms and complain about black rule. Security force investigators think the Farmers' Force includes some AWB extremists who want to return to what they regard as the organization's glory days. It's difficult to take them seriously, though, since even they seem less than totally committed to the cause. In call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Laughing Matter | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

...Continent; it holds the top spot in the pan-European chart. That's quite an achievement for the quirky trio and their deliriously silly song, which, more than any other piece of pop music in recent memory, vindicates the rants of all who turn on the radio and complain that they can't understand a word that's being sung. Asereje is mostly gibberish. The title doesn't mean anything. The comprehensible parts of the lyrics tell the story of Diego, a young gypsy with Rastafarian leanings who likes clothes, dancing and music. But look at the chorus: "Asereje...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars for a Season | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

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