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...loud. Louder than a Metallica concert. The student section, conveniently located right behind the opposing team's net, has been known to cause some minor tremors in downtown Ithaca...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Best and Worst Places to Watch the Ivy League Play | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

...just that the Patriots don't seem to havethat place in Bostonian hearts. Maybe it's becausethey're the youngest and least successful in afour-team town. Maybe it's because they play morethan an hour away from downtown. Or maybe it'sbecause Boston just isn't a football town...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Shhhhhh... | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

...Administration will also recommend that the next Congress authorize funds for a second new embassy on the same downtown Moscow site. This time, to ensure a bug-free building, State Department officials plan to prefabricate most of it in the U.S., ship it to Moscow in pieces and have it assembled by imported American workers with security clearance. Estimated cost: $400 million. Ever optimistic, the Administration hopes to cut that total by dunning the Soviets for $29 million in damages for shoddy workmanship and delays on the initial project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: A $400 Million Bug Bomb | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Forget the downtown department store and the suburban shopping mall. Leave the catalogs on the coffee table and turn off the video-shopping channel. Hop into the car with a full bandolier of credit cards and head for the outback. Tucked away in Monterey, Calif.; Boaz, Ala.; Rockford, Mich.; Freeport, Me.; and a dozen odd small towns in between, scores of manufacturers' outlet stores are doing a land-office business by offering 25% to 70% savings. Along with the bargains, urban consumers enjoy a day in the country and engage in a venerable American dream -- the inalienable right to pursue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flemington, New Jersey A Town That Bargains | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

Herb Klein, Nixon's press secretary then, says, "We'd come into a city concentrating on a downtown noon rally. Pierre Salinger ((Kennedy's press secretary)) and I would compete to get the biggest crowd estimate out of the local police chief. The biggest difference between the two campaigns is that the candidates now are not exposed to the public the way they used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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