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There were lots of reasons for the throw weight of the rumor. If true, it gave the lie to her belief that the single life was worth living, that a family consists of the people we are tied to by the work we share and < friendship as well as by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even Feminists Get the Blues | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

Ideally, students would rise to the occasion, as they have at other schools. If they don't, the system could be changed back the following semester. With the additional convenience and fairness, and the pleasing idea of an honor code, self-scheduled exams are really worth a try. Nobody is...

Author: By Thomas S. Hixson, | Title: Scheduling Our Hell | 1/17/1992 | See Source »

Another more bizarre brand of evidence has also spurred Lowerison to pursue her brother's case. In 1980 she began receiving mysterious phone calls. "I'd hear airplane engines and machinery sounds in the background," she recalls. "This would last one or two minutes. Then two clicks, and the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Know My Brother's Alive | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

But to their captors the hostages were often pawns in mind games of stunning cruelty. Several of the hostages, Anderson among them, were led on occasion to believe that they would be released imminently -- only to have their hopes callously dashed. "One night they said I was going home, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lives in Limbo | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

The greatest open rivalry was between the politically liberal Anderson and the conservative Jacobsen. Anderson, along with Jenco, tweaked Jacobsen, an Episcopalian, about controversial passages in the Bible, particularly scriptures dealing with homosexuality. Jenco recalls that Jacobsen, in turn, often sabotaged Anderson's attempts to elicit new information from their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lives in Limbo | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

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