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...Grab some extra kleenex, aspirin and chicken soup on your way to tonight's game at Briggs against Brown. The Harvard women's basketball team isn't feeling too well...

Author: By Patty W. Seo, | Title: W. Cagers Take On Big, Bad Brown | 2/26/1993 | See Source »

...Lunchtime. Try to grab a table with other seniors who can commiserate on the living hell that is writing a thesis. Wonder whether the conversation will be able to sustain itself for a record 37 seconds before someone utters one of the Taboo Words--"thesis," "interview" or "next year...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, | Title: A Day in the Life of Thesis Hell | 2/17/1993 | See Source »

...What about you?" Artyom asks. "Do you still believe?" The man's laugh is short, like a hiccup, revealing two gold-capped teeth. "I don't know what to believe anymore. Sometimes I think I should grab all the money I have, buy a pistol and take it to the Kremlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View From a Cab | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

...military titled My Country, My Right to Serve, women are expelled 10 times as often as men for their sexual orientation. Amy, a medical corpsman at the Naval Training Center in Orlando, Florida, feels so threatened that she pretends to date a male gay friend of hers. "I grab crotches, I make sexual innuendos," she says. "The more they suspect, the more I try to cover up." Recently, a married male officer made overtures. She did not file a sexual-harassment report because she feared "an investigation will ensue and my homosexuality will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Sex, Lies and the Military | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...were in, Okiki, a 13-year-old honor student, sat stony- faced at her desk in English class, silently preparing to collect a couple of hundred dollars on a dare. She had settled on a simple plan. Just wait for the bell to ring, reach into her book bag, grab the 12-in. fillet knife she had brought from home and stab the teacher in the chest while Marlena, a 12- year-old accomplice, pinned her down. Then -- whoosh -- instant respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Knife in the Book Bag | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

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