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...reaffirm his mettle as he ran for the White House, Clinton rushed home from New Hampshire to deny a condemned murderer's clemency plea. The brain-damaged killer barely knew his own identity, let alone the fate that awaited him (at his last meal, he saved the pecan pie to eat later), but Clinton proceeded without apparent qualms. "I can be nicked on a lot," he said afterward, "but no one can say I'm soft on crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest Frying Them Isn't the Answer | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...time to rekindle the old patriotism. Whip out the flag, eat some apple pie, maybe even purchase one of those Uncle Sam hats...

Author: By Johnny C. Ausiello, | Title: Cold War, Eh? | 2/16/1994 | See Source »

...getting people to do things they don't want to do for other people they don't like." Lipsha, as the novel begins, adrift in the white world: "He was caught in a foreign skin, drowned in drugs and sugar and money, baked hard in a concrete pie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Old Bear, Laughing | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

Early indications are that Moscaritolo could be letting Cambridge in on a piece of a considerable financial pie...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 1994's MEGA-ISSUE | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...students are seeing the light. They now revel in violence and want to assassinate each other like healthy, red-blooded Americans raised on television and rap. Rather than quashing the fun, Harvard administrators should embrace this game rooted in violence, which is, after all, as American as motherhood, apple pie or intercollegiate football. It's a chance to improve Harvard's image...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Revel in Violence | 12/15/1993 | See Source »

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