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...Wilson's office. We'll print an interview with the eminent biologist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner next week. He has a new book out on, well, LIFE. Very broad, considering that his latest book was the seminal history and classification of ants. So much more pleasant to bend over a glass cage filled with swarming and busy little ants than wrestle through the annoying crew fans in the Square. Not that observing the crew fans is much different from starting at an ant farm. In both cases, brawling little creatures bubble up from a little hole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ants | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...team's play recently may not have been pleasant for anyone, but the fact remains that the Crimson is still in excellent position to win the title...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: SOCCER NOTEBOOK | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...team's play recently may not have been pleasant for anyone, but the fact remains that the Crimson is still in excellent position to win the title...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Women Booters Play Host to Wildcats While Men Regroup | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...Jail is not a nice place to be and the prospect of serving 59 counts at five years apiece is not pleasant," said local political talk show host Glenn S. Koocher '71, who has known Walsh for 25 years...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Walsh Will Likely Surrender Self To Authorities, Associates Say | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...able to believe what anyone else is saying. But there also seems to be an honesty threshold, a point beyond which a virtue turns mean and nasty. Constantly hearing the truth, the cold, hard, brutal unsparing truth, from spouses, relatives, friends and colleagues is not a pleasant prospect. "Human kind," as T.S. Eliot wrote, "cannot bear very much reality." Truth telling makes it possible for people to coexist; a little lying makes such society tolerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Political Campaign: Lies, Lies, Lies | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

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