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...Class of 1994 has let the doyenne of controversial publications, the infamous rag, lapse into oblivion. Topping the particularly inflamatory "educated pussy" was a challenge that no present students could meet. The only news Penninsula makes these days concerns how little news it makes. The old guard--Roger Landry, Sumner Anderson, and company--were walking controversies. The spoke and the campus would go into a frenzy or at least plan an eat-in. Brigette/id Kerrigan could stir up acrimonious polemics about how her name should be spelled and provoke a near-insurrection with the well-timed wave of a flag...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Gore Says It All | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

...Penninsula's love experts like to play Cupid...

Author: By G.k. Wenceslas, | Title: The Crimson's Holiday Gift List | 12/18/1991 | See Source »

...narrow Gulf, where small speedboats, mines, and Exocet missiles seem to be the weapons of the day. The navy has concentrated the largest American armada of warships, those designed for escorting convoys across the Atlantic and attacking the Soviet navy in its bases off the cold Kola Penninsula, in a region filled with terrorists, Revolutionary Guards, and trigger-happy Iraqui pilots...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: America's Decline? | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...galaxy of young Spanish pros and amateurs who are dominating the continental golfing scene. The entire Iberian penninsula is experiencing a golf boom. In 1954 there were only 14 golf clubs in all of Spain. By 1970 there were 35 with a dozen in the works last year, including a 36-hole layout in Las Palmas...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Ole, Captain Ajax | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

...natural-born mimic with a voice box in its trachea, the Mynah lives all over the orient, especially in India and the Malay Penninsula. Not all Mynahs can be taught to talk. Those that can are a gold mine for bird fanciers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Bird | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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