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...Gradually, during the years the Class of 1951 spent at the College, a carefree atmosphere returned, along with a school spirit that one local newspaper had considered "dead as the pig in a pigskin...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Old College Try | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...less, Felder called Hanover an "uncaring mother" who stayed in a dead marriage for "twisted motives." Though her lawyer Victor Kovner says the couple agreed that Hanover should continue living in Gracie Mansion until her apartment is available, Felder made her sound like the interloper "howling like a stuck pig," who would have to be pulled "from the chain of the chandeliers" to remove her. In an attempt to win sympathy and perhaps absolution from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese, Felder volunteered that Rudy wasn't violating the Sixth Commandment because his treatment for prostate cancer had left him impotent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Grace At Gracie Mansion | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...there were a cause in sight, or a national commitment, I might be able to get my bearings. But I feel like a guy who has come home to the wrong house, sort of like Tony Soprano as he drives past the pig statue on the roof of the butcher shop on the way to his mansionette on the hill with the marble this overlaying the teak that. He knows where he is, technically, but he is also a lost soul, which accounts, I think, for his appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anybody Recognize This Place? | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...less, Felder called Hanover an "uncaring mother" who stayed in a dead marriage for "twisted motives." Though her lawyer Victor Kovner says the couple agreed that Hanover should continue living in Gracie Mansion until her apartment is available, Felder made her sound like the interloper "howling like a stuck pig," who would have to be pulled "from the chain of the chandeliers" to remove her. In an attempt to win sympathy and perhaps absolution from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese, Felder volunteered that Rudy wasn't violating the Sixth Commandment because his treatment for prostate cancer had left him impotent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Grace At Gracie Mansion | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...coup plotters also underestimated the pig iron beneath the petite 54-year-old President's bulletproof vest. "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger," Arroyo told TIME last week. As the protesters occupied EDSA, Arroyo set up her own war room in the MalacaNang Palace. Tanks, armored personnel carriers and several thousand Elite marines and riot police were brought in to guard the riverside lanes around MalacaNang. They unspooled kilometers of razor wire around the palace; under the venerable trees of its garden marines dug in with .50-caliber machine guns. "Let them come. I'll crush them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Streets | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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