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...undergraduates or other tutors. Karel Liem has endorsed their actions, but the Li brothers are the ones directly responsible for the atmosphere in Dunster House, an atmosphere in which tutors are threatened and pre-medical students remain silent for fear that their applications will be sabotaged. Neither of the Lis has made any move to apologize. Neither has demonstrated the ability to act effectively as a tutor. Both should be fired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Close, But No Cigar | 10/22/1993 | See Source »

...fashions: shaved heads with ponytails on top, T shirts that read YOU SUCK, nose rings and lip rings. University of Utah freshman Matt Irvine says many dress alternatively but have firm morals -- a buddy of his at the concert leaves for his two-year Mormon mission in a week. Lis Calder, 22, says the Utah alternative-music scene is a reaction to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: "I was raised in a strict Mormon family. My aunt thinks there's an evil spirit surrounding rock music and if I listen to it I'll never find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches Latter-Day Grunge | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

Strutting through a rippling forest of fleur-de-lis flags, some 200,000 Quebeckers staged a joyous wake for the accord that failed -- the three-year effort to meet the province's demands for special constitutional status. Time ran out on the so-called Meech Lake accord only two days before St. Jean- Baptiste Day, the traditional holiday of Quebec, and French Canadians made the most of the coincidence. Revelers and elaborate floats jammed three miles of Montreal's Rue Sherbrooke last week, celebrating the pride and power of nationalism. "Quebeckers to the streets," they shouted, "Canadians on the sidewalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Designing The Future | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...political reforms in Poland have the most dramatic flair of any in the Communist world, in part because they are being won under the inspiring banner of Solidarity. Roughhewn shipyard workers such as Lech Walesa and Bogdan Lis survived seven years of repression, forced the government into half-free elections, then humiliated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: A Freer, but Messier, Order | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...million from the sale into financing what is supposed to be the world's tallest (400 ft.) floating fountain. Its 41 jets will spout 15,800 gal. of Ohio River water every minute in a 20-minute computer-controlled cycle of designs, culminating in the fleur- de-lis, Louisville's official symbol. Tens of thousands gathered Friday night to watch the fountain's spectacular debut. Bingham was not among them. He died four days earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louisville: Too Late the Fountain | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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