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...statement coming form a man who has a national reputation as an advocate for school reform. And that's no small feat for a mere state senator...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Barrett Outlines Political Vision for State, Nation | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

IMAGINE TRYING TO SEIZE AN ELEPHANT THAT IS spinning overhead by grabbing onto three makeshift handholds the size of soup cans. Then consider performing this feat swaddled in a 255-lb. rubber suit, suspended in midair, with no net. It , was a comparable challenge that confronted the Endeavour astronauts last week when they rescued Intelsat, a 4.5-ton 17-ft.-long telecommunications satellite, from its useless orbit 230 miles above the earth. In a record 8-hr. 29-min. space walk, with the world rolling by beneath them, Commander Pierre Thuot, Richard Hieb and Lieut. Colonel Thomas Akers wrestled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shuttlenauts Make a Great Catch | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...Ever After, Swift has managed the feat again, devising a hypnotically complex examination set amid the circular staircases and false fronts of a strange man's brain. The monologist is Bill Unwin, 52, an honorary fellow of a Cambridge college who begins his tale with "These are, I should warn you, the words of a dead man." Three weeks earlier, he was rescued from "attempted self-slaughter." Now, immured in his unreal world, he recalls, simultaneously, his boyhood in Paris, his discovery of the diary of a 19th century forebear, his life as the husband of an actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain Surgery | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...imitation is the highest form of flattery, then U2, Sting and Blues Traveler should feel gleeful upon hearing "St. Stanislaus of East 7th." Gutterboy seeks to combine the masterful musicianship of all three, but in an amazing musical feat somehow manages to dilute their power instead of combining the enormous talent...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Mere Imitation of the Stars | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

Harvard convincingly defeated the Bulldogs the first around, 3-1, on March 6, and is hoping that it will be able to repeat the feat...

Author: By Ahmad Z. Che on, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: M. Spikers' Hopes for NCAA Bid Dashed; Face Yale Today | 3/31/1992 | See Source »

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