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Yesterday, as the photographer took these pictures, a Crimson Key tour guide told his crowd, "If you've ever seen a postcard of one of Harvard's houses, it's this one right here. This is Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell, Like New | 7/4/1996 | See Source »

...Postcard-perfect Lowell House is getting a facelift this summer. Its tower--the largest among the houses--is being restored during five months of construction two years in the planning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell, Like New | 7/4/1996 | See Source »

Before a visitor has even left Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, he is loudly assaulted by the city's pride in itself: "Awakens as a world leader," says one postcard, among the "American-Made Collectors' Souvenirs and Spoons" in an airport gift shop, and another calls it ''a competitor's paradise." Terminal videos instruct you on how to invest money here, and a large ad reminds you that the born-again town was voted the top American city for "global companies" in 1994 by one magazine and the best city for small businesses by another. Atlanta ("A Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A HOST OF CONTRADICTIONS | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

Since her junior year in high school, Madhavan has been actively pursuing a chance to be on "Jeopardy!", but her postcard was not picked at random until this past summer...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, | Title: Sophomore Takes 2nd on 'Jeopardy!' | 2/24/1996 | See Source »

...treats them like suckers while the rich enjoy a secret tax code written just for them--notwithstanding that his flat tax could favor the rich even more effectively. But his appeal is not only to apparent fairness and simplicity, the allure of a tax return no bigger than a postcard. The plan is also a lethal attack on the whole "culture of Washington," which he proposes to starve to death. Convinced that cutting taxes will stimulate the economy, Forbes doesn't worry much about estimates that his plan might swell the deficit anywhere between $40 billion and $182 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: KNOCK 'EM FLAT | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

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