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...Escapes ($399) seemed more promising. A flexible hinge on the bottom was supposed to let me fully extend my leg for a fast, natural stride. But the skates were downright painful. There was too much padding around the lower leg, and part of the skate dug into my inner ankle. I had another pal, Jillian, test them in her size, and her foot got so badly chafed that she had to wear Band-Aids the next day. "You couldn't give these to me for free," Jillian said, somewhat redundantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Wheels | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...Class Day Jesse Jackson will be the speaker. After his address he will meet with Rudy and try to free some of the endowment. Pedro Martinez Red Sox star pitches two consecutive 15 strikeout games. Who needs Roger Clemens anyway? Reading Period Weather The past few days have been downright gorgeous. How exactly are we supposed to get any work done...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Crimson Wisdom | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...with, admitedly, an infinitely-better-than-average wedding band performance by Harvard's own B-Side), and the show's pinnacle--a hilarious gender-bending, mimed depiction of Elsa and Lohengrin's wedding night (performed with just the right mix of sincerity and tounge-in-cheek self-awareness and downright bravery by Jordin Ruderman and Joseph Subotnik '00) and you'll begin to understand the aesthetics of King Kong...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mixing a Tape of B-Side and an Ape of Wagner, Hip-Hop Rocks the Opera | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...time religion: online traders. These e-buyers--indeed, they are mostly buyers--believe in the Net long-term. We know it was the e-little guys doing the buying because the average size of each trade was well below a thousand shares. What seems flaky to Wall Street seems downright rigorous to e-Main Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long-Term Carping | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...doggone it, there's something downright humiliating about a man who pounded out 4,256 major-league hits dressing up in a chicken suit to get pounded by wrestlers. Twice...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: Charlie Hustle Gets A Body-Slam | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

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