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Crimson editors over the decades have made some memorable attempts to capture exam period in newsprint. This article, "Beating the System," won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951. The Crimson proudly ran it every reading period until 1962, when it irked one maligned and anonymous grader enough to reply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEATING THE SYSTEM | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

...world" ex-wives beat themselves up, rassling is a noncontact sport, phone companies keep phony records every cop is a conspirator, all photos are doctored, cuts on the finger cause amnesia, blood has a travel agent and night golf is popular. Yikes! I wonder if agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder from The X-Files know about this place. JOE BOLSTER Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...that into nationwide use in the 1970s--but this newer slang is different. It is supposed to confer upon its users an edge, sometimes a comedic but always a faintly combative edge. The era of Saturday Night Live that dished out Dennis Miller's "I'm outta here" and Dana Carvey's "Isn't that special?" fed a hunger for a renewable supply of ironic put-downs. But what may have started as a boomer/Xer shtick has now become a reflex common to all ages, from Bob Dole to Macaulay Culkin (who gave I don't think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YADDA, YADDA, YADDA | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...Dana-Farber spends about $100 million in cancer research and $80 million in patient care each year, Singer said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: K-School Public Affairs Director Resigns | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

Singer's long and varied career has included stints as a newspaper and magazine writer, a White House advance person and a press secretary for two members of Congress, according to the Dana-Farber statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: K-School Public Affairs Director Resigns | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

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