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Twelve minutes remained when I reached Lamont. I thought victory was assured, but I had not yet encountered the greatest foe to any time-dependent operation: bureaucracy. In Harvard's never-ending quest for dlversity, the administration sought lazy bureaucrats to counteract the enthusiasm of the student body. Their indifference towards eager library patrons is an art form. I waited for three minutes to receive help because they could not cut short their mediation and deep relaxation exercises which those who do not know better would be tempted to describe as sleep...
...cabinet laughed at my feeble attempts, but with only 30 seconds remaining, a miracle occurred. The bureaucrat came to help me and due to his long-standing relationship with my steely foe, he was easily able to coax it open with 10 seconds to spare. I grabbed the microform as time expired. I had beaten the library. I had found the location where all three works should have been...
...harassment--have been defined by the law as criminal. But the soldier who turns on his comrades with savage intent commits a far graver category of crime. Whether he shoots them in the back or assaults their bodies with his own, he's confusing his fellow soldiers with the foe--and the word for this is treason. When a woman can't trust her drill sergeant, neither can the nation...
REPRESENTATIVE BOB DORNAN G.O.P. firebrand "B-1 Bob" gets blitzed by Dem Latina foe in still too-close-to-call vote...
...Helms is both a charming Southern gentleman and a sharp-tongued, dedicated foe of those who cross him. His rural, religious archconservatism is the product of an older North Carolina, but 345,000 people have settled in the state since 1990--perhaps blunting the political effectiveness of Helms' controversial verve...