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...this year by City Manager Robert W. Healy, Cambridge stands to lose at least $12.52 million should the CLT petition pass. A more likely scenario calls for cuts on the order of $25 million. Such a loss would devastate the most basic services that everyone in Cambridge--town and gown alike--now depends upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Question 3: A Prescription for Disaster | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...months and were watching an adult film at their New York City apartment, when Tara kiddingly suggested, "Why don't we make our own?" Two months later, after consultation with a therapist, the pair re-created their wedding night on camera. Joe wore his tuxedo, Tara her bridal gown -- at least initially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sex Lives and Videotape | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...least one club. Princeton mandates that one hundred percent of Bicker's participants find a home, or at least a dinner table. And so, at the very end of Bicker, while the chosen few are welcomed through the distinguished doors of Ivy, or Cottage, or Cap and Gown, and while those less fortunate console themselves with Court, or Cannon, or Quadrangle, the scattered leftovers must gather on Ivy's back porch. There, they are claimed by reluctant club presidents who previously rejected them. These unlucky, unwanted few are the "Hundred Percenters...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Ceremonies of Exclusivity, Timeless Literary Questions | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

...think they're a total anachronism. They go back to 18th century England, when the rich all dressed in fancy black tie and gown for dinner every night while the poor were starving in the street. That's one thing Gorbachev and I agree on. He won't wear a black tie either. I don't go to functions where they wear dungarees and sweat shirts either. I just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Rudman: The Iconoclast Of Capitol Hill | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...with the look of an unslept jailbird -- he is wanted by the army, like his best friend who was killed just now -- stops for a second, his body's engine racing, in front of a shop with a mannequin in its window dressed in a stately white wedding gown. The fugitive speaks with a distracted courtesy, wanting to be polite but needing to flee for his life, and then vanishes into an alley. The owner of the shop slams down his steel curtain over the window with the wedding gown. The mannequin bride goes blank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Intifadeh Of the Soul | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

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