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...sufficiently academically rigorous for its students. He cited the copious amounts of time spent on extracurricular activities as a serious impediment to creating a culture of scholarly learning. My English professor this semester has begged us over and over again to find quite spaces to sit and read poetry, lest the contemporary distractions of college life overwhelm...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: The Bottom Line | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...their eastern flank, their New Jersey, their Pasadena, the place you don't go if you're hip, and those people are heavily into hipness. At Walker Art Center, the custodial staff has to be careful not to leave a pail and a mop unattended during exhibition hours lest it attract a crowd of Minneapolitans struck by the angularity of the thing, the openness, the vocabulary of liquidity. Minneapolis, not St. Paul, is a mecca for performance artists, people who can't sing or dance or write or act but who can crawl through a pile of truck tires wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEET HOME, MINNESOTA | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...lied, she lied, they lied, we all lie, to ourselves and one another, in hearings and in print, at dinner and on Nightline, lest we give one inch in a war over abortion that rages on. Occasionally a lie is recanted, as happened when abortion-rights lobbyist Ron Fitzsimmons said that there are many more dilation-and-evacuation (D & E) procedures than he had admitted. With the "partial birth" abortion bill coming to the House floor this week for the second time, and with every chance of passage, even partial truth on the subject is elusive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARTIAL-TRUTH ABORTION | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...bragged about their sexual prowess, including who they had slept with, how often they had sex, and simply how well they satisfied their partners. The entire conversation was conducted with the unspoken understanding that all of us were sexually experienced. Those who weren't chose to lie about it, lest they be subjected to interminable ribbing from the others. Hence, when the boys tested me by inquiring what the extent of my sexual prowess was, I nervously blurted something that probably came out, "Yeah, man, of course I've had sex, what am I some kind a loser virgin?" Then...

Author: By Sozi T. Sozinho, | Title: Men Can Be Virgins, Too | 3/14/1997 | See Source »

Regulations required that we remain at the spa four weeks, lest new tissue samples be called for or some other dreary flaw need mending. The spa itself was bags of fun. Most evenings felt like the Polo Lounge in the old days, and dinner was as star-packed as Morton's on a Monday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLONE, CLONE ON THE RANGE | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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