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...hockey team, the problem more or less the opposite; lefties are a dime a dozen...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: In Athletics, South Paws Don't Feel Left Out | 2/13/1988 | See Source »

...last semester--$8000, plus two dollars for lost keys, one dollar for the library, and another two dollars to cover the cost of giving me a copy of my transcript. Now, no intensely self-respecting institution such as Harvard would ever demean itself so far as to nickel-and-dime the same students who pay over $16,000 each year to live in overcrowded dorms. Unless tradition was involved...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Reading Period Blues | 1/15/1988 | See Source »

BOOKS about winning are a dime a dozen these days. Everyone's got some program for winning through positive thought or effective management or life/stress maintenance programs. But read the whole collection of Donald Trump/Lee lacocca/Ed Koch "How-I-Did-It" books, and you'll end up with only one piece of solid advice: hard work is the only way to achieve success...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: An Antidote for Hard Work | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...month prior to the birth of their oldest son Paul in 1928. In the early 1930s, the Simons began publishing religious pamphlets out of their home, as well as a monthly magazine called the Christian Parent. Ruth Simon recalls, "When we went into business, we didn't have a dime of our own." A monthly treat was a Sunday after-church lunch at the Rex Cafe in downtown Eugene, where Paul and his younger brother Arthur would order chicken a la king for 35 cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Paul Simon: Some of That Old-Time Religion | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

Cocteau wove overt references to popular culture into his adaptation of the classic. Hints of thrillers, dime romances and detective films abound in the tale of the poet Orpheus's (Jim May) descent into Hades and return with his bride Eurydice (Magdalena Hernandez). Prascak, perhaps true to Cocteau's intentions, begins the play with a Madonna medley and transforms Death (Jennifer Lyn Bader) into a lovely Material Girl in white...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Hit Or Myth? | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

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