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However, nothing happened because protesters had forgotten to bring along the requisite lighter fluid and matches...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: Protest and Change | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...Only at Harvard would we have a theoretical plan to burn the building and [have] no one bring lighter fluid and a match," Blustein says...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: Protest and Change | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...rice per day. Many factories have closed; the rest are operating at 25% of capacity. Pyongyang is without electricity for hours each day. Many farmers are too weak from hunger to harvest crops or plant seeds. Not only have poor diets made North Koreans shorter and lighter over the past 20 years, but parents "may be raising a generation with lower IQs because of the malnutrition," says a U.S. official with access to the intelligence reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: READY TO IMPLODE? | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...addition to Dunkle's lighter Latin speech, Marius said the committee chose Jefferson's speech primarily because it put humorous twists on a serious theme...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Speakers Chosen For 1997 Orations | 5/1/1997 | See Source »

...with its predominantly Northern European traditions, erects distinct color barriers even though its population has been paddling in a richly mixed gene pool for more than three centuries. By contrast, Brazil is what Cose calls a "pigmentocracy," where the national myth of racial harmony masks a system in which lighter skins enjoy higher status and rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: COOL TALK ON A HOT TOPIC | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

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