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...innermost sanctum of esoteric knowledge - he looks for the first time upon the horror that scientists and their masters have created for the country and for humankind." And so: "Reagan cuts through the arcane and dangerous knowledge with pure common sense and vows to deliver his people from impending doom." This is piffle, but interesting piffle, with a ring of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Book, but the Reagan Mystery Endures | 4/19/2000 | See Source »

...lack of timely hitting spelled doom for the Crimson in each of yesterday's games...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Softball Drops a Pair of Close Games to BC | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...Those plans were put on hold Thursday when a U.S. district court judge halted the move based on a petition by local political gadfly Clint Reilly, who argued that the subsidized transfer of ownership to Ted Fang, the proprietor of a group of local newspapers, was a ploy to doom the Examiner and leave the Bay Area with only one daily newspaper. The ruling, which many believe Hearst will appeal, has touched off a debate among media analysts about the Newspaper Preservation Act, a law passed in 1970 with the aim of preventing newspaper monopolies in America's cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Throes of a Two-Newspaper Town? | 3/31/2000 | See Source »

Granted, Mendelson's overwhelming attention to dust mites, food pathogens and spores can be so constant and so alarming that a better title for her book might have been Life: The Silent Killer. Not only are the things necessary for survival--food, clothing, water--impending Petri dishes of doom, the products used to clean these things may very well be contaminated. Mendelson describes sponges the way Alan Keyes talks about the "radical homosexual agenda"--breeders of bacteria threatening our very way of life. Since there's no way I'm together enough to constantly launder a pile of rags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Won't Launder My Dish Towels | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

Bradley declined to say whether he would withdraw, though one top adviser told The Crimson last week that a poor showing yesterday would spell doom for his nomination. Bradley will meet today with top campaign managers and key financial supporters to decide his next course of action...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gore, Bush Seal Nominations With Huge Wins | 3/8/2000 | See Source »

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