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Both the Afro-Am Department and the Dining Services seemed to have been bogged down in the institutional and structural mire of the status quo. Both have restrictive structures--the tenure system and the repetitive and all-encompassing meal plan--which were effectively prohibiting any sort of substantial change...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Deli Day for Afro-Am | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...story worth $40 million of somebody's money and 77 min. of your time? Not the way Oliver Stone's tells it, as a display of pop fame's wretched excess. That was evident back in the '60s; 1991 is no time to wallow in the mire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 18, 1991 | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...money (that's $10 million a Door!) and 2 hr. 15 min. of your time on a proposition -- some guys can't handle fame -- that was evident two decades ago. Maybe it was fun to bathe in decadence back then. But this is no time to wallow in that mire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come On, Baby, Light My Fizzle | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...surrender to an RPV, turning round and round, waving their arms as the pilotless drone circled above. An Iraqi tank and another armored vehicle bore down on a U.S. Humvee driven by a lone soldier and stuck helplessly in mud. The Iraqi vehicles pulled the Humvee out of the mire; then their crews surrendered to its driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battleground | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

CAPTION: STUCK IN THE MIRE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Needed: More Get Up and Go | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

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