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...Raffi is not the first star to become politicized. But there is something frantic and indiscriminate about his activism. Along with environmentalism, Raffi is lending his name across the countercultural spectrum: he supports aggressive feminism, Native American land claims and animal rights. He believes oil companies should shut down their refineries not soon, but tomorrow, and devote their profits to developing solar energy. No executive of any company should earn more than $1 million a year. "Would that be enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Clapping Hands: RAFFI | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...were a little frantic, I think," freshman middie Genevieve Chelius said. "When we settled down, we started to play a lot better...

Author: By John B. Trainer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Eagles Soar Above Slumping W. Booters With 3-1 Triumph | 10/2/1991 | See Source »

Before long, word got around that Grays Middle had taken the Plate. I hesitated to believe it (ignoring potentially false cries of victory is among the first rules of Hunting). But when the frantic frosh stopped sprinting through the Yard. I knew I had lost again. At least this time it was a clean loss. I was ready to take it like a man, go out for ice-cream, you know, maybe talk a little about Science...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The Prefect Crime | 9/17/1991 | See Source »

They say that the central government of the newly-named Union of Sovereign States hopes soon to establish a plan of economic reform that will move them to a market-based economy. "Very frantic work is being carried out right now," says Yuriy N. Isakov, senior counsel for economic affairs at the Soviet mission in New York City...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: More Than They Bargained For | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

...containers. "They were so heavy we had to use a crane rather than a forklift," says a participant. The crates were trucked to a "secure airport" and loaded aboard an unmarked 707 jet, where an American, believed by the black-unit members to be a CIA agent, supervised the frantic activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: B.C.C.I.: The Dirtiest Bank of All | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

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