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James J. Marino '91 said he "thought [the alarm] was a fluke." until he went out his suite's front door and saw the smoke. He then had to escape through a fire door. "It was easy to tell it was no joke," he said...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: Adams House Fire Forces Evacuation | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...four or more cups of decaffeinated coffee a day had a slightly higher risk of coronary heart disease. That's puzzling because caffeine has generally been fingered as the most noxious ingredient in coffee. The report's authors caution that the slim evidence against decaf may be a statistical fluke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Comeback Time For Coffee | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...peddling a manuscript based on her real-life experience as a Texas narcotics cop who got hooked on cocaine. By the time author Kim Wozencraft sold Rush to Random House for a $35,000 advance, Zanuck had already won the film rights for $1 million. The price was no fluke. Last month Tom Cruise paid about $1 million for the rights to Big Time, a novel by mystery writer Marcel Monticino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Really Won the Lottery This Time: Hollywod Screenwriters | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...tournament, in real terms, means very little because it has no bearing on who makes the national tournament. Although the top three finishers will probably make nationals, a fluke victory by the Crimson would not have earned it a berth...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: Golfers Bogged Down Out on The Cape | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

Stressing the difficulty of writing a movie inthe Monty Python group, Cleese said Life ofBrian was a fluke "because we had the sameattitudes and feelings on religion...

Author: By Seamus C. Gallagher, | Title: Parading Poonsters Honor Cleese | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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