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This weekend, Fair Harvard's campus will be crawling with hundreds of loud, overbearing college runts. They'll be in suit-and-tie and lady-like dresses, trying to impress the hell out of other not so well-dressed college runts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATTACK OF THE ORATORS | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

...Raid the toilet paper supply in your house super's office. You needn't wait for the first snow of the winter to impress parents strolling through house courtyards. Imagine: toilet-paper snowpeople in Mid-November! And if your House experiences a run on those fluffy white rolls, old copies of the Lampoon might just finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BANGING YOUR BUCK | 9/24/1994 | See Source »

...senior in high school last year she was voted the top junior player in Massachusetts. Recently, she won the championship at the Oakley Country Club, a feat that did not fail to impress her new coach in Cambridge...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: W. Golf Looking to Improve in Second Full Season | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...former radio talk show host, Jeghelian had strong name recognition entering the convention but apparently failed to impress the delegates with her self-described "moderate conservative" views...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: The Senate Race In Review | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...says. "They think they can just come into court, put on their evidence, and that will be the end of the story. They stop there. Well, thank God, juries don't." Legal scholars say juries have always been unpredictable, refusing to bend to controls the authorities hope to impress on them. "The tradition is that juries are the ultimate arbiter of law, not judges and not the state," says Anthony D'Amato, a law professor at Northwestern University. "And if they think the law is ridiculous, juries may ignore it. Instinctively, juries are getting it that they don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oprah! Oprah in the Court! | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

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