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...from a guy driving by in a truck. When I enter a store, a salesman automatically jumps up and asks me if I need help. He then helps me pick out a clock for my roommate, and when the computer jams, he gets flustered and jokes, "The computer's jealous." I'm impressed with the service, until I realize that no one is helping the other 10 customers in the tiny one-room store...

Author: By Evelyn H. Sung, | Title: the LADY & the TRAMP | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...That's disappointing," said Lamelle D. Rawlins'99, a former council president who interned inthe Clinton White House last summer. "I'mcertainly jealous...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinton To Speak At MIT Graduation | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

Kirsten E. Butler '01 agreed. "She's veryfunny," Butler said. "I'm terribly jealous becauseshe's gotten to work with amazing editors herwhole life and she's gotten to write about herselfher whole life...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kincaid Reads From Latest Novel, `Brother' | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

...greatest strength is also his weakness. He has Western fans who admire his grasp of detail, but he has only narrow support in China's bureaucracy. Leftists do not like his familiarity with market economics. Conservatives accuse him of neglecting inland provinces, and the Young Turks of Beijing are jealous of his rapid rise. All these factors make Zhu less threatening and more acceptable to President and party leader Jiang Zemin. Also, one needs to consider what will happen to those who push reforms faster than the party elders want. Two very powerful leaders were removed from the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 13, 1998 | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...much of their power and humor from their ability to candidly joke about, for example in Butler, the postmortem theft of Winston Churchill's penis. And yet even in the supposedly free era of the 1960s, Orton was unwilling to publically announce his homosexuality, and was killed by his jealous lover in a twisted murder-suicide...

Author: By Elaine Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wilde Would Have Loved Orton's Freudian `Butler' | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

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