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...What are they--plain stupid?" asks Wisconsin resident Gloria Brown, who makes $6 an hour and has two children who qualify for free lunch at school...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Congress Steals Lunch | 3/10/1995 | See Source »

When asked why he has a .plan, Aaron Y. Mandel '97 (e-mail: amandel@fas) answers, "For essentially the same reason as I'd rather wear a t-shirt from a concert or convention or other nifty thing than a plain one. People get a kick out of seeing their favorite author quoted in someone else's .plan, which is probably at the back of many minds when .plans are written." Mandel's current .plan is a collage of sorts containing huge blocks of "obscure" song lyrics and quotes of things that have been said to him "which...

Author: By Sharon C. Yang, | Title: Finger Me, Baby | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

...Saturday night, it seemed without a doubt that those words rang true. Not just because of the way the team played, but more because of the plain truth that Harvard had reclaimed its home-ice advantage...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, MILLER TIME! | Title: Take Back The Bright! | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...STRUCTURE PROBLEM: At least there are some models of the cosmos-unpopular though they may be-that accommodate Freedman's age estimates. The same cannot be said for Lauer and Postman's detection of large-scale motions across the universe. Most scientists are betting that their observation is just plain wrong, but they haven't yet been able to pinpoint why. And both Lauer and Postman admit that the effect may wash out as they collect more data from deeper in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNRAVELING UNIVERSE | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...next morning, the quiet ended. Several cars pulled up to Su Casa, and 10 men in plain clothes, three or four of them Americans, rushed up to the front desk. ``Where is Room 16?'' one demanded. A hotel clerk pointed the way, and the posse ran up the stairs and knocked on the door. When Ali Mohammad opened it, they burst in. ``It was like a hurricane, a big panic,'' said Khalid Sheikh, a Karachi businessman who was staying in a room on the ground floor. ``They were dragging him downstairs. He was blindfolded, barefoot and had his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

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