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Revenge would be sweet, but unless Harvard cleans up its act, it looks to be a distant possibility...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Slumping M. Hockey Faces B.U. Tonight | 11/24/1998 | See Source »

...story buildings) will remain aloft up to 100 days. That's enough time to look for such elusive phenomena as planets in other solar systems, black holes and remnants of the Big Bang. Says astrophysicist Josh Grindlay, leader of a Harvard-Smithsonian group that uses balloons to map distant X-ray sources: "For some science, they're going to give the shuttle or space station a run for the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploring Space on the Cheap | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...Jack's Smoke Shop, housing both Megabucks lotto tickets and Macanudo cigars in a single cramped room. According to owner Sonny Cimenian, Jack's boasts 135 cigar brand names along with pipe tobacco, humidors and Keno. Cigar smokers trek from as far as Hyde Park and other distant outposts of Boston to browse through the boxes of Ashtons, Padrons and Montecristos lining the shelves. Sonny will aid cigar novices with his storehouse of tobacco knowledge, choosing selections according to price ranges and personal tastes. While the wannabe-pretentious Harvardian may feign unswerving devotion to Leavitt and Peirce, the true tobacco...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: on the T again OUTWARD BOUND | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

These words seem distant today to our Harvard world, merely part of the lengthy history of the institution that Crimson Key guides rattle off to tourists. We are slowly fading from a connection to the Harvard lives that were lost for this country and the people behind the engraved names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recalling Harvard's Greatest Sacrifice | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...THAT'S ME! Last week, Mike Costanza, a Long Island real estate agent and distant acquaintance of Jerry Seinfeld's, sued the actor and others for $100 million, saying Seinfeld used his name and portrayed him "in a negative light." This isn't the first time someone has seen himself in a character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 9, 1998 | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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