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Harvard, I am embarrassed to admit, is sorely lacking in school spirit. Although the stadium's bleachers are always filled for today's historic game, during the rest of the season it is not unusual for the visiting team to bring more fans than ol' Harvard can muster up. And when the topic of Harvard comes up in casual conversation, people are as likely to castigate some element of the Harvard experience as to speak enthusiastically about their future alma mater...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: 10,000 Men of... Where? | 11/23/1996 | See Source »

...answer you are looking for' is usually the product of a quite plug'n'chug formula application," he wrote. "I see no depth in the problems, only good ol' down home high school style busywork...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course Web Talk Unexpected | 11/8/1996 | See Source »

There is a kind of movie out there known as the "special-effects flick"--this much scientists have confirmed. Some become sci-fi epics, a la "Terminator 2"; others are fun-filled fantasies, such as good ol' Roger Rabbit's tale. Yet a special few are so wretched, so abominable, so unpardonably content-less that one hesitates even to say their names again for fear of incurring the wrath of the Gods of Good Taste. The Michael J. Fox debacle falls into the last category...

Author: By Nicholas R. Rapold, | Title: Latest Fox Flick Is Abominable | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...fact that ol' Hillary and Bill Clinton are contemplating having another child is not a surprise [Nation, June 3]. It is simply an election-year ploy to boost their images, to make voters forget Bill's tainted past and Hillary's Whitewater woes. Maybe their Hollywood friends believe what they say, but I doubt the American people will. ANN FINN Ridgefield, Connecticut Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 24, 1996 | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...days when J. Edgar Hoover's FBI put more zeal into collecting dirt on Martin Luther King Jr. than into protecting civil-rights workers. It does not help that two ATF agents who face potential disciplinary action for taking part in the racist shenanigans at the so-called Good Ol' Boys Roundup in May 1995 were originally part of the church-burning task force. They have since been reassigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIVIDING LINE: FIRST THE FLAME, THEN THE BLAME | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

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