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...mannered and bookish Harvard students usually are, but on top of these behemoths they become pilots of destruction. I glance behind me in apprehension, and find a bike-riding Harvardian screaming down the narrow Yard paths, no doubt late for his or her "Sex" section. They are willing to crush whatever measly pedestrian dares poke along their path...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: The Biking Menace | 10/29/1998 | See Source »

...doubt that there are cases in which the police look the other way, prosecutors don't bring charges and juries don't convict. Take the case of Jonathan Schmitz, who killed a gay man who said during the taping of the Jenny Jones Show that he had a crush on Schmitz. Schmitz was convicted of second-degree murder. Was being the object of gay affection such understandable humiliation that the charges were ameliorated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laws of the Last Resort | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...recent conflict began last March when President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic deployed Serbian troops to crush ethnic Albanian rebels fighting for the Kosovo Liberation Army...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Debate Kosovo Autonomy | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...girlfriend has a major crush on you. I think we should fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Stiller | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...time to see Frasier. The characters are eccentric and complex, the actors superb, the writers the wittiest bunch ever called into service in TV land, and each episode is more brilliantly structured than the last. I think there should be no question about this show's ability to crush every upstart and retread for five seasons running. Survival of the fittest, I'd say. HOLLIS ASHBY Pacifica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

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