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...really does feel good to be bad, or so I discovered last Friday night. While more dutiful undergrads raced to the MAC to grab that last Stairmaster or trudged home to cram for midterms, I lazily popped The Godfather (Vol. 1) into the Eliot Grille VCR/14" TV, and sat back to enjoy the ride. But before you could say "I believe in America," my private screening had come to a close. Two couples, a security guard and the Eliot Grillemaster installed themselves in my immediate vicinity, pausing now and then to quiz me on the relevant merits of the mafia...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: The Godfather Returns | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...this point, some will proudly declare that the difference between Harvard and Oxford's approaches to the study of business is a triumph of American pragmatism over British snobbery. Such people will quickly grab the nearest copy of Democracy in America and begin a grandiloquent dissertation on the free-thinking spirit that distinguishes the United States from its monarchical ancestry...

Author: By Joshua A. Katzin, | Title: Cents and Sensibility | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

Bruce said he believes only one person or group is involved in the "smash and grab" break...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: String of Crime Plagues Mass Ave. Businesses | 3/8/1997 | See Source »

...smash and grab" is a break-in in which the thief breaks a window and then quickly takes the valuables lying about, Bruce said...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: String of Crime Plagues Mass Ave. Businesses | 3/8/1997 | See Source »

Bruce said the incident at the Tax Man didn't fit the "smash and grab" pattern. "They had the guts to stick around and take a lot of stuff rather than just smashing the window and making off with whatever they could get," he said...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: String of Crime Plagues Mass Ave. Businesses | 3/8/1997 | See Source »

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