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...consider the first four letters in the title of Gladiator a "Rocky" wanna-be whose characters fail to provoke emotions as could Mr. Balboa or Apollo Creed, I ponder whether I am GLAD that I viewed this trash? No, I categorically declare. GLADness would have required obtaining a lobotomy along with my buttered popcorn upon entering the theater...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Nothing but a Rocky Wanna-be | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

...variety of beer, on the other hand is excellent. The sophisticated drinker can ponder European integration while sampling Belgian beer (try the cherry and the strawberry ones), solid dark German brews and, of course, the traditional French ones. If you're lucky, you might get a chance to down some Eastern European Budweiser. But don't forget: Service is included in the price of drinks...

Author: By Sameer A. Chishty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: European Brew Flows At Tres French Clubs | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...could enter: free-style cursing, perhaps, or uphill climbing, or cheap skating (since a pair of tacos at the top of the mountains would set him back $16). When striking taxi drivers blocked the area's only highway for 10 hours one day, visitors had even more time to ponder the fact that a bob-sled here could travel 40 times faster than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1992 Winter Olympics: At The Starting Gate | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...Harvard think about who they really are. During the semester, we work so hard that we just can't sit back, take that deep breath and reflect. But now, I have hours upon hours to sit around my Leverett suite, watch my breath condense in the cold air, ponder the infinite questions of my being. And for the first time in my life, I think I have discovered my true self...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Finding Myself in the Ring | 1/10/1992 | See Source »

President Kennedy had six days to ponder what to do before he went public about the Cuban missile crisis. During the gulf war, the White House rarely had six hours to respond and sometimes felt it did not have six minutes. In the face of this urgent need to know, whenever CIA Director William Webster received word via intelligence satellite that an Iraqi Scud missile had been launched, he would tell National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, "Turn on CNN to see where it lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History As It Happens | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

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