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DIED. PETER RODINO, 95, unassuming, gravel-voiced Democratic Congressman from New Jersey who, with a steady hand, led the compelling House impeachment investigation of President Richard Nixon; in West Orange, N.J. Born to Italian immigrants in working-class Newark, N.J. Rodino was an aspiring novelist before he turned to law school. Elected in 1948, he served quietly for 25 years before becoming a household name in 1973 during the Watergate investigation. "If fate had been looking for one of the powerhouses of Congress," he said at the time, "it wouldn't have picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 16, 2005 | 5/8/2005 | See Source »

Aesop’s gravel-voiced verses abound with extended metaphors, complex rhyme schemes, and passages that just plain don’t make sense, leading critic after critic to bring “the poetry question” forward in discussion of his artistic output...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Aesop Rock, King Poetic? | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

Aesop’s gravel-voiced verses abound with extended metaphors, complex rhyme schemes, and passages that just plain don’t make sense, leading critic after critic to bring “the poetry question” forward in discussion of his artistic output...

Author: By Will B. Payne, | Title: Aesop Rock, King Poetic? | 5/4/2005 | See Source »

...policy toward the acquired companies. IBM last year completed the $1.9 billion purchase of Rolm Corp., a Silicon Valley maker of telecommunications equipment. The button-down computer giant has since left its freewheeling subsidiary largely alone. "We didn't come here to fill up the swimming pool with gravel," an IBM official assured Rolm employees, who have happily retained their corporate hot tubs, saunas and water-polo team. General Motors has vowed to pursue a similar strategy with Hughes Aircraft, which the automaker acquired in June for about $5 billion. GM said it bought Hughes for its technical know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bigger Yes, But Better? | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...herself, he was not about to go outside in his underwear, and she stomped out, and just as he took off his underpants and reached for his pajama bottoms, she threw the truck into first and popped the clutch, and out the back door and onto the gravel he rolled, clothed only in his astonishment, and she did not stop but kept right on driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lonesome Whistle Blowing | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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