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...that while Las Vegas was unfailingly piquant and over the top, it was sui generis, its own highly peculiar self. Vegas in none of its various phases (ersatz Old West outpost in the 1930s and '40s, gangsters-meet- Hollywood high-life oasis in the '50s and '60s, uncool polyester dump in the '70s and early '80s) was really an accurate prism through which to regard the nation as a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas, U.S.A. | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...plea. Canadian journalists who had attended the trial itched to write, as the Post eventually did, about how Leslie Mahaffy, 14, was hacked to bits and encased in concrete blocks, and Kristen French, 15, was held hostage for almost two weeks before her body was deposited in a dump. Yet no publication breached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncandid Canada | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...really had a chance to get set up," captain Sean McCann said of the second best scoring defense in the ECAC, giving up 3.20 goals per game coming in. "We got on the puck quickly and moved it well in our zone, things you have to do against a dump and chase team like that...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen, Israel Shut Out Skating Dutchmen, 2-0 | 12/4/1993 | See Source »

Stop for how long? The scheme has never been tested in a man-made impoundment, nor at 9,000 to 10,000 ft. in mountainous terrain subject to very heavy snowfalls, avalanches, flooding, severe underground seepage and seismic activity. If, or when, the tailings dump fails, it will funnel heavy metals into Fisher Creek, which becomes the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River, the only "wild and scenic" river in northwestern Wyoming. If the Army Corps of Engineers or the Environmental Protection Agency vetoes the wetlands destruction, the next best site would require a more complicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Lode Vs. Mother Nature | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...Like they say, nobody's making you. Ask him if he wants to do something else for a change (maybe a hockey game?). And if he doesn't, dump him. (In general dumping is proven to be a remedy for most things in life; it makes you feel great and Harvard students' relationships are too long and drawn-out anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Am I a homewrecker? | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

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