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Ryan's attitude is 180[degrees] from the "Everybody has one" line so many kids pull on guilt-stricken parents at this time of year. And it reflects an appreciation of just what a dollar is worth to Ryan, which is about 5% of a lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents' Guide: Money Counts | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

Town Manager Kenneth Knight determined that the municipal code prohibited only the display of genitalia or the committing of sexual acts in public. Because breasts are not technically genitalia, and mowing the lawn is not technically a sexual act, Thompson's pleas for justice were rebuffed (no pun intended...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Democracy's Follies | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...turn the wheels of the democratic process in our glorious land. From cockfighting to criminal attorneys to titillating lawn trimming to dead candidates, our famous republican experiment rolls on. I'm not saying we shouldn't be proud of ourselves in these days following the mid-term election. A little civic solemnity is most certainly appropriate as we observe another peaceful changing of the guard. But, if you consider the people of Missouri, who took the time to debate and then vote on a ban of bear wrestling, you have to wonder if King George was really so bad after...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Democracy's Follies | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...thing I think about--I know this sounds odd--is Bill Clinton. But if you could see this haunted house, you would note how sad and uncomfortable it makes you feel. The place is destroyed and not destroyed; it is both the ghost and the living thing. Its overgrown lawn is as thick as thatch. Its chimney tips like a cocked hat. At dusk its side wall, blasted by the dying autumn light, shows in a fierce and pathetic white--a burn victim in a sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Regarding the Haunted House | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...much-heralded performance. The crowd packed on the Boston Common resembled the crowd that assembles each year for the Boston Pops' Fourth of July performance at the Hatch Shell or a Red Sox game. One hundred thousand people in shorts and T-shirts stood on walkways or sprawled on lawn chairs and beach towels in the uncommonly hot and humid weather. One might have expected to see Nine Inch Nails perform on the gargantuan stage instead of the Boston Symphony...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: barefoot in the park with BSO | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

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