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Some Harvard friends saw me at The Game with the Yalies and called out "Traitor!" I laughed at the jibe until I realized they weren't laughing with me. They were serious...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, | Title: I Like to Party on the Other Side of the Field | 11/21/1992 | See Source »

Another target of Gurney's comic attack is George Bush. Peggy gives a speech that Clinton campaign advisors would have loved. But like the Cole Porter songs, the speech would be good in another context, but it does not jibe well with the rest of the play...

Author: By Howie Axelrod, | Title: All the World's a Stage | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

Investigators initially focused their efforts on examining the procedures in the baggage-loading area at Frankfurt's international airport. But risking the transfer of an unaccompanied, bomb-laden suitcase to a connecting flight did not jibe with the precautions terrorists usually take. Security officers using video cameras routinely keep watch over the area. An intricate network of computerized conveyors, the most sophisticated baggage-transfer system in the world, shunts some 60,000 suitcases a day between loading bays. Every piece of luggage is logged minute by minute from one position to the next, so its journey through the airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pan Am 103 Why Did They Die? | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

Trouble was, the songs were filled with lyrics that didn't quite jibe with the sound you heard. That makes for a flat, boring listen and quickly disposable albums. (Except for their first release, Trinity Sessions, where the entire album had the twilight of the idols feel, and rightly...

Author: By J.d. Connor, | Title: More News on the Cowboy Junkies | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

Arzoumanian says he has participated in protests against the war and defends demonstrations as "an effective means of getting the message across." He adds a jibe at pro-war demonstrators, saying, "I don't see how supporting the troops means we should send them to their deaths...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: The Gulf War Has Students' Minds Churning | 2/2/1991 | See Source »

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