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Students, faculty and staff are all charged the same amount for permits. Staff who opt for permits usually use the cheaper spaces, HUPS officials said, since they park their cars at home at night...

Author: By Jason T. Benowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Own Seek Solutions to Parking Woes | 9/24/1997 | See Source »

...station will likely fall on deaf ears because Michael Foale is no longer in much danger, reports TIME science correspondent Jeff Kluger. "A month ago Sensenbrenner's argument was strong," Kluger says, "but after the repair it got a little weaker. As it stands now, nobody is going to opt for ending U.S. participation until they shut the thing down or there's a major accident." Given Mir's rather shaky record, the latter can never be ruled out. But the station has been pretty tenacious thus far ? and since the U.S. badly needs Russian cooperation for the planned International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THURSDAY: Mir No More? | 9/18/1997 | See Source »

First, religious Jewish students who opt out of dorm life often do so out of their conviction that dorm life prevents them from following the Jewish laws of personal modesty properly. This decision, which is usually made by, or with, the help of the student's rabbi, neither implicitly nor explicitly judges "all of their classmates." It is a decision made to allow a religious Jew to follow Jewish law as closely and honestly as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Five Not Guilty of Judging Peers; Following Their Beliefs | 9/17/1997 | See Source »

Microsoft has managed to co-opt nearly everything. Yet as I sit facing my friendly Macintosh PowerPC and my nondescript IBM clone equipped with Windows 95, I know that only one of these machines has a soul. Rob Parsons Sitka, Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 8, 1997 | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...requires a prospective couple to select either the old, relatively easy-to-get-out-of form of wedded bliss or the new, no-way-out version, which is why our dreamy couple have barely touched their dessert. Who at such a moment of exquisite hopefulness is going to opt for Marriage Lite? Not any starry-eyed 19-year-old I know--nor, for that matter, many 40-year-olds bewitched by the reverie of hope triumphing over experience. Not since prenuptial agreements became fashionable among moguls acquiring trophy wives has there been a more likely killer of happily-ever-after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TILL DEPOSITIONS DO US PART | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

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