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...rallies. The declines will be overcome. But human nature hasn't changed much since Adam and Eve. Many people now putting their life savings in stocks will instinctively move to protect them if they sense lasting trouble. Rather than lock in lush profits today, they'll lock in dismal gains--if not outright losses--tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEAR THAT GROWL? | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...staff would die by the fires of its halogens. Dean Nathans has taken the reasonable step of informing parents of an emerging public safety hazard, and for this she should be commended, not condemned. The College must work to ameliorate the dismal lighting that it currently provides while preserving concern for the safety of its students...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Safety First | 2/25/1997 | See Source »

...sections--that is, if you realize early enough what you are getting into. But this is often harder than it seems. Switching from one section to another at Harvard is like playing poker. You have to know how to bluff (fabricate a conflict to escape a section with a dismal teaching fellow); you do not know whether trading in your cards (switching sections) will net you a better hand (TF); and you have to know when to walk away and give up the fight (resign yourself to the fact that there is no room in the best section, that...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Dismal TFs Unworthy of Harvard | 2/21/1997 | See Source »

...chooses this road, then its dismal record and inconsistent play will slowly disappear and there will be fewer bumps in the road to Lake Placid...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: The Road to Be Traveled | 2/21/1997 | See Source »

...speech, it is the "protection" of our nation's youth which underlies national drug policy, not any political weakness of our pot-smoking (but non-inhaling) President. McCaffrey empathizes with sixth graders who face that terrible choice whether to smoke weed. In order to prevent this oh-so-dismal decision-making, he wants America to spend $16 billion next year to prevent the shipment of drugs to white suburbia--which will have them anyway...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: What McCaffrey Didn't Say Here | 2/19/1997 | See Source »

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