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...Nikes sit, discarded, beside the organ bench, his bag slumped in one of the empty pews of Appleton Chapel, the cozy inner sanctum of Memorial Church. Playing the organ, Danny Forger '99 is hidden behind a bank of silver pipes that range from the size of a pencil to a baseball...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Organists Are Just Normal People | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...would randomly mutate into either TFs or financial consultants. While this approach is encouraged, a finely tuned Bad TF can grade papers with a combination of whimsy and style. At the end of the paper or exam, write "Nice Work." Below that, write "B+." Then, in a different-colored pencil, cross out the "B+," and write...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Becoming a Bad TF: All You Need to Know | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...have garnered a great deal of support from Russia's underpaid and underfed servicemen. His mysterious "rehearsal" call issued Sunday --including the enigmatic statement that he even has "a team ready to unload a freight carriage at night" -- is being widely attacked, but taken seriously. Perhaps President Yeltsin should pencil in that February date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Start the Coup Without Me | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...Then he finds himself in an impromptu Air Force One press briefing on campaign finance, assuring us he will offer himself to Janet Reno for questioning. As if all this wasn't enough, Clinton now has to decide exactly how he is going to use his line-item veto pencil on the $248 billion Defense Appropriations bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUESDAY: Pork and the President | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

...problem, snakes occupy almost every available ecological niche except the polar regions, from rain forests to deserts to the sea. Probably descended from nearly limbless lizards that lived during the age of dinosaurs 90 million years ago, snakes are divided into some 2,700 species, ranging in size from pencil-long African thread snakes to gigantic 20-ft. pythons and anacondas that are big enough to swallow a human. To fit into a cylindrical body, their viscera are ingeniously modified--with organs either shrunken or stacked on top of one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN PRAISE OF SNAKES | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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