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Usually we permit ourselves this cathartic exercise of self-love for the Friday before and the Saturday of the game. But by Saturday afternoon this year, it was back to normal: bragging was out, humility was in. This shortened time-frame explains why we care about the loss. By winning, the Yale team deprived us of a few more hours of the much-needed, post-game therapy that we have come to expect and enjoy. When the game ended, our right to gloat...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: Why We Care About The Game | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Borden Chemicals, accusing the company of a series of environmental-law violations. Among the charges: the company stored hazardous waste, sludges and solid wastes illegally; failed to install containment systems; burned hazardous waste without a permit; neglected to report the release of hazardous chemicals into the air; contaminated groundwater beneath the plant site (thereby threatening an aquifer that provides drinking water for residents of Louisiana and Texas); and shipped toxic waste laced with mercury to South Africa without notifying the EPA, as required by law. Last March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: Paying A Price For Polluters | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

Women on this campus maintain the right to visit final clubs without shame. This is not to say that we should cover our eyes in the face of inequity. While we women should unite to promote more social interactions among ourselves, we should not permit the administration to label us as unwitting victims...

Author: By Vanessa L. Melendez, | Title: No Shame in Having Some Fun | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...involve free-for-all, year-round massacres. To avoid accidentally eliminating the last member of an endangered albino coyote population or unknowingly hunting within a two-mile radius of a popular picnic area, it is helpful to consult the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife for season, permit, and species information. For those who seek the exhilaration of stalking beasts of horn and claw, the Big Game firearm license is $27.50 (unfortunately, out-of-state hunters have to shell out almost 100 smackeroos). Alongside the usual fare of black bear, white-tailed deer and quail, a multitude of neighborhood critters...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: The Deer Hunter | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...study argued that women on welfare wanted to work, but the time-con-suming activities of raising a family did not permit them to work low-wage jobs with inflexible hours...

Author: By Justin A. Barkley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists Attack New Welfare Legislation | 10/7/1998 | See Source »

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