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...Fifteen Minutes (FM): What is your favorite fairy tale? Gregory Maguire (GM): I think it is probably Rapunzel, and I haven’t done Rapunzel yet—which I think is interesting. Maybe I never will, because it is my favorite...
...Fifteen minutes after leaving my room in Claverly, I was at the Charles River Basin, where home regattas are held. Two stops on the red line, a five-minute walk, and there I was. That’s about the same amount of time it takes me to walk across the river to cover women’s hockey, so my first excuse for not attending is shot...
...first companies to sell lever-voting technology created a national ad campaign in 1959 called "Behind the Freedom Curtain." "You will register and count your own vote!" The ad proclaimed."Mechanical counters cannot get tired, cannot get cranky, cannot forget!" Evidently, the lever technology needed such aggressive commercials - fifteen states that had adopted the device since its mass production in 1892 had returned them by 1929, calling them too complicated, too expensive and too difficult to keep in working order. In the early 1960s, University of California at Berkley professor Joseph Harris suggested applying to ballots the punch-card method...
...someone who has been a conservative at Harvard for the past four years like Mr. Lacaria, I must contest his account of the state of conservatism on campus (“The Elephant in the Room,” Fifteen Minutes magazine, Oct. 8). More than ever before, Harvard conservatives and the Harvard Republican Club are making new inroads on campus—from inclusive events that challenge the status quo to activism that changes the course of our nation’s history. Being a conservative is absolutely not about “conserving what cannot be conserved?...
...already playing the fond memories in my head: IceScapes would be all fun, friendship, and frozen treats.Unfortunately, what were originally sources of excitement soon turned sour. I learned that there were no qualifications because I was relegated to manual labor: whether I was churning the italian ice every fifteen minutes, tackling a never-ending pile of dishes, or furiously scrubbing all manner of surfaces, I was always occupied by a paranoid and micromanaging Ron, who seemed to be perennially watching me for the slightest mistake. I also discovered that the staff at IceScapes was so young and inexperienced because...