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...moment of contact [when Abeles hit the ball], we realized it was going to go out," Kreuder said. "It was definitely a shot--it cleared the wall...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: Abeles Powers Softball Past Eagles | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

...been applied to almost any play by Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionescu or other Absurd playwrights. "The same joke is repeated relentlessly," writes Muchmore. "It then turns out that the whole conflict has also ocurred mulitple times...[the characters in the play] inhabit their own world, one that lacks meaningful contact with the real world...it walks a thin line between reality and oddball fantasy...[and] asks a few more questions than it ends up answering...The characters succesfully end up seeming crazy without being enlightening...[and the play] never gives us sufficient oppurtunity to do anything but distance ourselves from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Muchmore Misses Point of The Day of the Dogs | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

...difficult issue, to be sure. But if you think you've been misquoted, or think you might be misquoted, contact The Crimson. They'll try to help...

Author: By Noelle Eckley, | Title: READER REPRESENTATIVE | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

Overwhelmed, the college student cut off contact. "I can't live in your world," he wrote, "and you can't live in mine." On one filmmaking trip, he summoned up his courage and asked a caseworker how the cutoff had affected Charles. "He felt it was the end for my father," Lachenmeyer admits sadly. "They knew I was the most important person in his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS IS YOUR FATHER'S LIFE | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...nearly anybody who has come into contact with the system can recite a litany of horror stories: nitpicking "utilization reviews" of doctors' bills by insurance-company bureaucrats; patients hustled out of a hospital within hours, even after surgery as traumatic as breast removal; gag orders forbidding doctors to tell a patient about an expensive treatment. A recent addition: a patient rushes to an emergency room with what feels like a heart attack but turns out to be only gas pains--and gets zapped with a huge bill because his HMO will reimburse only for a "real" emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACKLASH AGAINST HMOS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

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