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Perhaps. But I haven't thought of anything better. Law school is too predictable and boring. Investment banking is too corporate and stressful. Med school would have to wait until I take my remaing pre-med requirements--all six of them. Grad school sounds just plain miserable. World Teach demands thousands of dollars up front for the privilege of working as a teacher...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: I Want Them | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

Whether they plan on studying, sleeping, or just plain gobbling, a number of undergraduates say they will not let the exodus of their fellow students spoil their holiday fun this Thanksgiving...

Author: By David P. Bardeen, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Students Make Holiday Plans | 11/25/1992 | See Source »

Earlier this year, The Cleveland Plain-Dealerobtained a Justice Department memo in which adifferent prosecutor asked Ryan to pressure theSoviet Union for information about Ivan Marczenko,now widely believed to be the real "Ivan theTerrible." It is not known whether Ryan, in aJanuary 1980 trip to Moscow, asked Sovietofficials about Marczenko...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Lawyer Is Under Investigation | 11/17/1992 | See Source »

Despite his shortcomings as a candidate, Perot could take some satisfaction from his first plunge into electoral politics. He demonstrated that Americans are hungry for leadership rooted in common sense and plain speaking. He was on the mark when he said, "If anyone wants to know who's to blame for the $4 trillion debt, just go look in the mirror." Voters did not recoil from such lines. On the contrary, Perot's experience suggests that Clinton and Bush missed an opportunity to use similar outspokenness in order to develop a mandate for bullet-biting reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons of Perot | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...toss in the CIA, the military-industrial complex, or little green men -- oops, vertically challenged other-pigmented males -- from Mars? Perhaps some imitator of Oliver Stone is waiting in the wings to do just that: there are truckloads of Basquiat works in Beverly Hills. The plain truth -- that Basquiat killed Basquiat, that nobody but he was sticking the needles in his arm -- is not going to get much airing at this solemn farce of heroic victimology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purple Haze of Hype | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

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