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...able to put ass to cushion and finger to channel-changer flip through nearly 100 channels is as American as apple pie. Cable Television is a staple in nearly every household and college dorm room in America. Why should the Harvard houses be the exception? Every Harvard resident should be able to watch Ab and Magnus hoist compact cars over their heads or buy a limited edition Joan Rivers hairpin on the Home Shopping Network. Fiddling with the antenna for five channels went out of style with the rotary phone and leaded gasoline...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: I Want My HTV | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

BARNEY "THE DINOSAUR" AGE: 200 million HEIGHT: 7 ft. WEIGHT: Won't divulge OCCUPATION: Children's TV host BEST PUNCH: Suing over a long-running skit in which the Chicken would "punch, flip, stand on and otherwise assault the putative Barney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 17, 1997 | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...function, and nobody really knew where anything was, but we all knew that something had changed, something for the better, and it felt as lasting as you can get in this nanosecond trading world. I was able to scoop up some Dell Computer at 79 at 10 a.m. and flip it at 89 by 2:30. Same with Chevron and Microsoft. By 2:45 it was an upside panic. In fact, Intel triggered a frantic wave of buying simply by not denying a rumor, reported on CNBC, that it was about to announce a massive buyback. In fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT GROUND ZERO | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...bill's rousing bipartisan success, assured since President Clinton's October flip-flop, leaves Republicans with a new problem: How to keep their lead on taxes, which, with the 1998 races looming, has fast become politics' most attractive issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxing the Taxman | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

...keeping the troops in Bosnia still requires considerable flip-flopping from Bill Clinton. The 1995 mission was renewed for 18 months after the '96 election ? and now Clinton wants Congress to extend it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Bring the Boys Home | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

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