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...large black-and-white cow--or at least a student dressed as one--was exactly what joined in the Charles River Run Saturday morning, when about 125 fist-years, many in Halloween grab, ran the 1.7 mile course...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Years Race in Halloween Grab | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...think of as conspicuous capitalization. If a hotel boasts about costing $1.6 billion, it's no wonder that my wife--who, like many people of royal birth brought up in middle-class American families through mix-ups at the hospital, prefers down pillows--might be inclined to bounce her fist off a hard rubber pillow and comment, "The money must be somewhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Money off High Costs | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

There is an old saying that if you give a family a fist, you feed them for a day. If you teach them how to fish, you feed them for life. Paul Cellucci, it seems, would prefer to do neither...

Author: By Jean W. Galbraith, | Title: A Second Try for Mothers in Need | 10/27/1998 | See Source »

Gates is surely the institution's favorite non-grad, as Harvard is one of the few people places or things for which Gates unclenches his tight fist. And when you're making about a trillion times minimum wage, even the slightest loosening counts; Gates recently donated $15 billion to construct a new computer science building and to sponser technological research. There is also a "William H. Gates Professorship" in Computer Science...

Author: By Micaela K. Root, | Title: Why to drop out of school | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

There are viewers, sympathetic ones, who will find Beloved more admirable than involving. The focus on stern Sethe and her closed fist of a heart may put audiences at a distance; and 174 minutes is a lot of time to spend with four troubled souls moseying toward inevitability. But the popularity of pizazzy Hollywood melodrama should not mean that the only movie pace is four-on-the-floor frantic. Beloved has a pulse that beats slower because the hearts of its characters are heavier; but that pulse is evidence of complex people sifting through the ashes of a national tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bewitching Beloved | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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