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...Needless to say, few settings could have been more different from my Harvard existence. The Puritan work ethic, half-hour lunch and drinking age seemed designed specifically to make me miserable. But despite my readiness to apply for Spanish citizenship, there was something I missed. Not apple pie or cheap gas, but the multi-colored, multi-ethnic world I call home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An 'American' Girl | 2/10/1998 | See Source »

...Needless to say, Ciollo was "happy with the time...

Author: By Will Bohlen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Track Teams Shine Against Brown, Cornell | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...Monica Lewinskys. One of two things will follow. The public will demand that Clinton go; or, tired of watching the news with their fingers on the mute button, they will turn away not only from the President but also from the very idea of public responsibility. And that, needless to say, isn't what the civics textbooks had in mind either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: It's the Sex, Stupid | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Glenn insists that he has no reservations and answers most questions with the same straight-arrow simplicity that so endeared him to the public nearly two generations ago. "Needless to say," he says, "I'm excited." After waiting 36 years, he has a right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right Stuff, 36 Years Later | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...getting a pen into their hands, use it recklessly in spite of the warning of good taste. They forget that they pretend to be gentlemen, hence unpleasant contests. Hard words, we believe, should be reserved for those cases where men willfully persist in wrong action. Such cases, it is needless to say, rarely occur in college. It is an evil of the same kind, though not of the same degree, to try to convince by epithets, as to have recourse to bowie-knife and revolver when the pen has failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'I Will Not Philosophize, I Will Be Read' | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

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