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My search for "Party of Five" final episode tapes has flopped miserably. Oh well. I guess it was definitely a ratings flop. That or no one tapes things anymore. Ever notice the blank video-cassette section of stores like CVS has shrunk to a pitiful small quantity?

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In The Mix | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

To a celebrator of the alleged maternal instinct, "modern woman"--with her contraception, abortion rights, career and nanny--can only be a pitiful freak. Mid-20th century Freudians urged women to put aside ambition and masochistically (their word) submit to the maternal instinct. In the 19th century, gynecologists warned that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barefoot, Pregnant and Ready to Fight | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

Disgruntled air travelers will hardly be caught off guard by the latest news: Airline service is in a pitiful state. According to a new study from the University of Omaha and Wichita State University, all service indicators, from on-time performance to general passenger treatment, fell to dismal levels during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harsh Report on Airline Service Is Same Old News | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

Admittedly, this division between seeing meat on one's plate and recognizing the animal it comes from has long been a part of Anglo-Saxon culture, a part that one pitiful little endpaper like this could hardly hope to explode. Consider the fact that the meats in the English language...

Author: By Daryl Sng, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Veins in My Teeth | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

The world has gone mad and we are all of it. What's worse is we made it that way. Or at least, that's the way of the world according to the master Swedish dramatist, August Strindberg. In truly modernist fashion, the world of August Strindberg's experimental masterpiece...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Touch of Class, Strindberg Style | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

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