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...Block the Internet Relay Chat channel innocently named #nancy (in reality an S&M pickup spot), as well as the famously steamy #hottub channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOFTWARE FILTERS: HOW WELL DO THEY WORK? | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

Despite a career spent in government, colleges and think tanks, Miller portrays himself as the pickup-driving, gun-owning Virginian whose onetime political benefactor betrayed the state's true Republican principles. "Two years ago," Miller tells Republican audiences, "John Warner stabbed this party in the back and now expects this party to raise him on its shoulders. That is wrong!" His fund-raising letter describes Warner as a Beltway insider more likely to be "dining at the elegant Palm restaurant in Washington with liberal TV 'journalist' Barbara Walters than testing his hunting rifle." That is Miller's way of reminding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: ESTRANGED BEDFELLOWS | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

Hanson's friends, though all from Minnesota, attend a variety of schools around the country, ensuring that the book is not too Harvard-oriented for its intended audience. Some elements of college life, after all, are universal. What student has not wanted a handy list of pickup lines for the laundry room? Hanson provides a few: "Hey, baby, what's your setting?" Or perhaps: "Are you feeling dizzy? 'Cause you been tumbling through my head...

Author: By Matthew S. Mchale, | Title: Currier House Junior Authors New Guide to College Life | 5/17/1996 | See Source »

Dick Armey, who emerged last week as Washington's biggest obstacle to a minimum-wage increase, is the kind of guy Americans say they want in Congress. After 11 years in Washington, the former economics professor still drives his Ford pickup to work, refuses to wear a tuxedo to obligatory gala dinners and is a connoisseur of drive-through meals, which he devours between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: FISHING FOR CONVERTS | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...prosecution statements that Mahon has made "to people assisting the defense" in which Mahon linked himself to the bombing. What were those statements? Jones won't say, claiming that as potential trial evidence they must remain confidential. Jones also says either Mahon or his brother Daniel owns a brown pickup truck that resembles the one witnesses say fled the Murrah building minutes before the bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: THE STATE VERSUS MCVEIGH | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

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