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...While some observers detect in her story an echo of British colonial Kenya's decadent White Mischief years (depicted in the 1987 film based on James Fox's book), hers is a decidedly less glamorous version of that early-1940s tale of adultery and murder among the bluebloods. Still, according to Botswanan prosecutors, the Bosch case similarly embraced "the four Ls of murder-love, loot, lust and loathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Until Death Us Do Part | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine--can both attest. Thus it came as no surprise when Lampoon editor Vali D. Chandrasekaran '03 attempted to break into the Crimson Jan. 2, continuing the two publications' long-standing tradition of petty thievery and mischief...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Free Vali | 2/7/2001 | See Source »

CRANKY PRANKS They're not the first, but are they the worst? Rumors are flying around Capitol Hill of mischief wrought by Clinton staff members upon leaving the White House. Democrats dispute reports of serious damage and remind us that G.O.P.ers can also be impish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prank-O-Meter | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

Bush would rather do battle with Clinton's ghost than a Senator of his own party. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer was right when he labeled Clinton's last-minute pile of new rules, orders and treaties the work of a "busy beaver." The former President's aides had mischief in mind when they conjured up some of these actions, especially the designation of more than 5.6 million acres of federal land as national monuments. If Bush wants to reverse those orders, he will face howls of protests from environmental groups. "We laid a few traps," chirps a happy Clinton aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George W. Bush: Rolling Back Clinton | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

University Hall. "He was unduly apologetic afterward about having acted thus responsibly, and the culprits were set loose on further mischief in the service of their headlong ideals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Philosopher Quine Dies at 92 on Christmas Day | 1/5/2001 | See Source »

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