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...SYSTEM STANDS, history concentrators are engaged in a never-ending crap shoot. Will the course offered next year really be there come next September? Maybe, maybe not, nobody seems to know. History concentrators need assurances that the information they receive from the department in the course catalogue regarding course offerings is accurate and complete...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Information Please | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...Irish electrician and an Italian mother, Hill entered the crime business at age eleven, when he took a part-time job at a Brooklyn taxi stand run by the brother of a local mob boss. Under the capo's tutelage, Hill slowly learned how to run crap games, pass off counterfeit money, torch buildings for a fee and, finally, how to take over businesses and squeeze them dry. Along the crooked way, he married a nice middle-class girl from Long Island, who realized rather late that her husband was not just another up-and- coming businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wrong Lane Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

Whether he had been courageous, dumb or just quirky, Hodel suddenly became the target of Iacocca's verbal wrath. Never one to hide his feelings, or his ego, the Chrysler chairman blasted back. His summary dismissal, he charged, "borders on being un-American." He referred to "all the crap I've taken." He declared, "I do not appreciate being disenfranchised on somebody's whim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sing Me No Torch Songs | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...spoiled children...I just wanted to get loaded and play pinball machines. Essentially I was the imported American sheep dog for these little lambs, these girls. I mean it...It was my job to chase guys away and yell profanities, like "I'll get your mother for this!" and crap like that. Until I realized that it was more profitable the other way. I mean one of the girls would say, "Listen, for 100 francs, maybe you could go blind for five minutes..." By the end of that year, I had gone blind so often I could...

Author: By Jack Trumpbour, | Title: Hurray for the Hasty | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...always calling us pieces of crap. He's garbage. I hate him. When he hit my back, he took my jacket and put it over my head, and banged me against the floor. After that I thought he was finished hitting me, but yesterday he said he was going to step on my face. You want to dial the cops, but you can't. I never talk about him to my boyfriend. I didn't even want to talk to Geraldine at first. I didn't like her at first. I liked Mary Paul better. I thought Geraldine, you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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