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...Yale, if students purchase the 14-meal plan, they also receive $200 worth of "Flex Points," which can be used at local restaurants like the nearby pizzeria Naples and at Au Bon Pain...

Author: By Lisa N. Brennan-jobs, | Title: Eat Your Heart Out | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...third game, Harvard scored in each of the first six innings to take a 20-2 lead. With its mental block lifted, the Crimson's physical superiority was finally free to flex its muscles...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Mind Games | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

According to a senior Mexican official, however, Zedillo and Cervantes had huddled after Feb. 6, deciding not to inform Washington--and thus risk Clinton's wrath--until a solid case developed against Gutierrez. Zedillo may have seen a chance to flex some badly needed muscle and make sure Mexico's generals understood that the impetus to nab Gutierrez came from him--and not the U.S. In any case, Zedillo does not much care for certification. It is, he told Time, "a rather improper procedure, not very consistent with the principles of international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLUELESS IN WASHINGTON | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...delightfully eccentric medium Madam Arcati (Mara Clark) to perform a seance in his home. Through some mysterious circumstances, his first wife Elvira (Dee Nelson) appears--and refuses to leave. One disaster after another ensues as Elvira and Ruth fight it out for their husband--fertile ground for Coward to flex his comic muscle...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai and Bonnie Tsui, S | Title: The Dead Arise and Wit Ensues | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

...very telling of the objectivist cult-following that it should regard the poor and the unsuccessful (who are the brunt of their joke) as failures. In objectivists' eyes, the poor fail willingly because all people have and have enjoyed equal opportunity, have entered this world with equal freedoms to flex equal minds. They believe that every wealthy and successful individual is so because of his or her "productivity," that the uncreative and less intelligent and less talented should suffer for their fruitlessness, and ultimately, that our civil society should feel no obligation to them...

Author: By Chris H. Kwak, | Title: Critique of Pure Nonsense | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

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