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Citing safety concerns, Currier House has ended 24-hour service at its student-run bells desk...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Currier Bells Desk Shuts Down 24-Hour Service | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...desk, whose attendants check identification of anyone attempting to enter the house and offer a variety of services including package pick-up and video rental, will no longer be open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and from 1 a.m. until...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Currier Bells Desk Shuts Down 24-Hour Service | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...same stall with old Man o' War," he says, "than make the whole damn Follies." Down on his luck, he has the sour, insistent patter of a guy without dolls, a sharpie gone flat. Tonight he's got nothing better to do than talk to a taciturn desk clerk (the excellent Paul Benedict). The clerk hardly listens, but that doesn't matter. Erie could be speaking to a barkeep or a stranger on a bus, or to a mute God on a slow night in limbo. He's a nonstop mouth in search of an open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THE GODFATHER GOES SOLO | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...Hughie? A fellow who used to work the desk, someone who took interest in Erie's mutterings, or seemed to. Hughie is dead now, so Erie elegizes a man he thought brought him luck. Like most elegies, this one is about the mourner. Erie needs a new lucky charm. If he can connect with this clerk--turn their parallel monologues into a dialogue--the gambler might be a winner again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THE GODFATHER GOES SOLO | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...stuff can get in there and stick. You wash down the debris with a solvent and run it through the machines." Crash clues, in the end, could come in very small packages. Says an aviation expert: "All the significant evidence could fit on top of a desk." But finding that evidence could require raising most of the plane. Through Friday, less than 10% of the aircraft had been recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IF IT WAS A BOMB, THEN WHODUNIT? | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

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