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Something interesting that has happened to her recently: Funny you should ask. I got hit by a pick-up truck on my way to the weight room last week and broke...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: FM Interviews | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...problem, child prostitution. Our primary exhibit: a set of photographs taken in Moscow by freelance Russian photographer Alexey Ostrovskiy. Distributed first by Agence France-Presse, they purport to show a pimp named Sasha and two 11-year- old boys soliciting tricks near the Bolshoi Theater, an infamous pick-up spot. Some of the pictures, which showed the boys made up as girls, were too explicit to publish. The ones we did publish were awful enough, haunting and unforgettable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Managing Editor: Aug. 16, 1993 | 8/16/1993 | See Source »

...fake magazine also had a page of "pick-up lines" with such classics as, "Your legs are like a 19th-century novel: long and sweet!" and "Did you see that article the other day in Edge...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: Inside Edge Debuts | 4/27/1993 | See Source »

...intelligentsia has always held the position that any given Black intellectual can seize one's ethnic relatedness or leave it alone. At the same time there has always been as well as an expectation that a sizable segment of the Black intelligentsia in any given period would in fact pick-up some facet of one's ethnic relatedness. Which is to say, for example, that some-but-not-all Black lawyers would do this (e.g. the Harvard-trained William Hastie and Charles Houston, the Howard University-trained Thurgood Marshall, the Yale-trained Marian Edelman); that some Black humanities scholars would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Intellectuals and Ethnic Obligations | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...plan must include estimated breakdowns of the composition of the business' trash as well as the name of a trash pick-up company contracted to cart away the recyclable. The city will fine violators...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: City Demands Full Recycling Plans From University, Student Groups | 12/9/1992 | See Source »

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