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Springer is a Quincy House resident concentrating in comparative religion. A native of Brookline, his activities during college have centered primarily around concerns stemming from his Jewish identity. He has been an active member of the egalitarian minion at Hillel, and has served as the co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Zionist Alliance, as well as several other offices...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: Speaking Singly, He Invokes a Nation's Conscience | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...truth: the counterrevolution sweeping the Communist world has made possible what Perez calls the "de-ideologization' ' of politics in the Third World. That means Perez, who had to cope with bloody riots sparked by price increases in February, is at least spared having to worry about some Third World minion of the Kremlin accusing him of socialist heresy. The real perestroika makes Perez's version look tame -- and more promising -- by comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America: Abroad Pereztroika | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Then, perhaps sensing that he was stretching legality too far, our minion of New Hampshire law offered us a choice. "Well, boys, I can either take y'all in for underage drankin', maynin you'd spend some time in jail and have a criminal felony on your record, or...I can tow y'alls...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: GONZO WEEKEND | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...established himself as our leading poet-anthropologist of the contemporary urban landscape, an artist with a special feeling for the near psychopathic outsider, battering brutally but ineptly on the doors of bourgeois normality. In this movie, working on a $3.5 million shoestring, he has cunningly reversed himself. For Joseph Minion's script casts a representative of normality as the outsider, the avant-garde's lunatic fringe as the insiders. They may keep weird hours, embrace extraordinary life-styles and befuddling living arrangements, but they are a community. All the characters Paul thinks he is encountering at random turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mean Streets in Nighttown After Hours | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...long held by Mormons, that it is only prudent to have a year's store of food on hand in case of pestilence or famine. Their grand sachem is Howard Ruff, 49, devout Mormon, professional pessimist and author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (2.5 minion copies sold). Ruff is the economic evangelist behind Ruff Hou$e, a half-hour syndicated television show that preaches to 2 million viewers every week the benefits of investing in hard goods, gold, silver coins and small-town real estate. Acting on his own forecasts of "major social and political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Planning for the Apocalypse Now | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

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