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...party sum.My instruction was almost completely by seniorfaculty members, rarely a teaching assistant oreven as assistant professor (or faculty instructoras they were called then). I had world-famouseconomists as my tutors and met with them weekly.Their doors were always ready for students, allyou had to do was knock. They were always around...

Author: By Barbara LEWIS Solow, | Title: Silk Stockings And Cigarettes | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...white plastic chair by the ice machine at the Highland Motel in Bullhead City, Arizona; hang around the parking lot at the El Rey Motel in Searchlight, Nevada; knock on doors at the Desert Inn Motel in Needles, California, and the sad stories pour forth. There's the fireman who fled his eastern Washington home when his wife started sleeping with his fire-station colleagues. He moved to Alaska, worked security on the pipeline, then drifted south, where he gambles away his earnings as a casino janitor. There's the Michigan supermarket checker whose husband left when she told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEARTBREAK MOTEL | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

...have their boat, not after Conner's crew shouted vulgar insults and made obscene gestures at them during start maneuvers in the semifinals. Said Bill Koch, who funded Mighty Mary's attempt: "If we gave him our boat, some of the women told me they'd knock holes in it first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD MAN AND THE SEA | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...dead. She survives only because she carried the box in to her boss, the organization's president, Gilbert Murray, and left it with him. He started to unwrap it-and the package blew up in his hands. The blast, which killed Murray,47, instantly, was powerful enough to knock two doors off their hinges and blow gashes into the ceiling panels. And it was loud enough to be heard for blocks around, sending hundreds of workers into the streets in fear and bewilderment. Their panic was easy to understand: the Oklahoma City bombing had taken place just five days earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNABOMBER: THE BOMB IS IN THE MAIL | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...injury, Ripken should surpass Gehrig with No. 2,131 on Sept. 6 in Baltimore. Andy Van Slyke, newly signed by the O's to play center field, is excited but slightly anxious about playing with Ripken: "What if we collide on a short fly ball? What if I knock him out of the lineup? I'll need more Secret Service men than Reagan, Bush and Clinton combined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GROUNDS FOR OPTIMISM | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

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