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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crew of 'Poonsters led by President Brian A.Kelley '94 returned to the dormitory armed with anew table, a vacuum and mop, two dozen white rosesand a violinist. "I'm very sorry," Kelley said ashe attended the students, scrubbed beer off thewall and offered them a $200 gift certificate atGiovanni's, a restaurant in the North...

Author: By Kathryn M. Meneely, | Title: Lampoon Antics Disturb Wig G | 12/8/1993 | See Source »

More specifically, Noble plays on two plastic buckets, three steel boxes (read: salad crispers) with a steel grating under them (read: shelves), and uses all types of sticks--broomsticks, mop-sticks, or, as Noble says, "whatever works in order to create new and interesting sounds...

Author: By Noemi Flores, | Title: Harvard Square Musicians Play Unusual Instruments | 11/24/1993 | See Source »

...truth is, while I was worried about the danger of intervention in the Balkans, I didn't consider Somalia to be a problem for the Lone Remaining Superpower. I saw pictures of skin-and-bones Somali gunmen and scoffed. I thought we could walk in, mop the place up, and go home. I was wrong...

Author: By Jacques E.C. Hymans, | Title: Somalia--White Man's Burden? | 10/12/1993 | See Source »

...obscure yet costly rules and regulations that he hopes to bring under control. At the moment, no aspect of procurement escapes Gore's memory. While some politicians speak in sound bites and some in windy paragraphs, Gore speaks at book length whenever possible. One of his favorite gigs -- Mop & Glo for short -- is an extended riff on the insanely complex specifications for a federal purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's Al Gore? | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...blur the lines between past and present: "There is a flood remnant...As if the Samaritan woman's water jar/Had been hurled against the wall, and was still dripping...Or it may be only a freshly washed floor/ Whose little lakes are...swept around by the custodian's mop...They say the ice-cold well of martyrdom brims into the present here...

Author: By Deborah T. Kovsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Beautiful Gilded Lapse of Time | 12/17/1992 | See Source »

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