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...mess. Not only do you sound like you believe that ghost crap, but also talking in rhythm is totally loopy. And if I'm not mistaken, when I read between the lines, it seems that you have an unresolved Oedipal complex. I suggest therapy. Your problems are so complex that not even a good literary critic could figure them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extracurricular Extraordinaire | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...Bullock) is a lonely, orphaned, Chicago Transit Authority worker who becomes infatuated with Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher); a commuter she has never spoken to. On Christmas Day, Lucy rescues Peter after he falls unconscious onto the tracks of an approaching train. Due to an incredulous plot twist, Lucy is mistaken for Peter's fiancée at the hospital...

Author: By Jed D. Silverstein, | Title: 'Sleeping' Won't While Away Your Saturday Night | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

...have faith in humans. I believe that we fundamentally know what is best for ourselves. And even in the times when we are mistaken, I am not convinced that the College administration has the correct answer. At such a cold institution as Harvard, we should strive to define our lives as much and as uniquely...

Author: By Jake Brooks, | Title: Random Won't Mean Diverse | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...theater company was not amused. After the performance, the actors lectured my class on the appropriate decorum of a theater audience. Clearly they had mistaken Pygmalion for some other, much more serious, play, No Exit perhaps...

Author: By Noahs Archives, | Title: Corruption of Youth | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...fevered fantasies of gun owners seem overdrawn, so, apparently, are those of the control advocates. In 1986, when Florida initiated the current wave of liberalization, critics predicted deadly traffic squabbles and cross fire at the mall. That proved mistaken. Since 1987 more than 266,700 Floridians have been granted concealed-weapons permits; of those, only 19 have had them revoked for firearms-related crime. Since the CCW laws were relaxed, Florida's homicide rate has decreased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gun Control: LICENSE TO CONCEAL | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

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