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...have a car, Wolf's will prove tough to get to. If you're worried about the raised eyebrows you'll elicit from your armchair-liberal blockmates when you glowingly recount how great if felt to plug the silhouette on your target right between his beady little eyes, maybe you should stick to the Kevin Bacon game...

Author: By Rebecca U. Weiner, | Title: Shooting the Breeze | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...might provide scant amusement for marksmen of considerable moose hunting prowess. Aspiring trophy hunters and greenhorns of Harvard Yard, take note: Grey squirrel season opened October 17, with a bag limit of five. In addition, legal hunting hours commence 30 minutes before sunrise, so it is even possible to plug a chattering rodent prior to 9 a.m. Chem class...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: The Deer Hunter | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

Once you get over that hurdle, setup is pretty straightforward. You plug a standard phone line into one hole in the back of the box and a standard telephone receiver into the other. You use the telephone to dial your Internet provider and to punch in your log-in and password. Then the Aplio--with its built-in modem--takes over, connecting you to the party you are trying to speak to. It connects you, that is, if the party has an Aplio synched to yours, which probably requires enough prearrangement by telephone to eat up most of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phone Free | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

After heavy rain gave Cornell an extra day in Cambridge, an outmatched Big Red hung around like last week's bubble gum before the Crimson pulled the plug with nine minutes remaining in a 2-1 win at Ohiri Field Sunday afternoon. CORNELL 1 HARVARD...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kelly, Hench Goals Power Men's Soccer Past Cornell | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

...into a position on Abraham Lincoln's kitchen staff, unless he or she were intoxicated. Once they sobered up and checked out the pilot episode--a heavy-handed, totally unfunny spoof of the current White House scandal--they would have asked themselves, "What were we thinking?" and pulled the plug on the series out of sheer embarrassment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumb and Dumber | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

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