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...mine back in 1983. The critic mentioned that I ate breakfast with Ronald Reagan at the White House and "spent weekends with the President at Camp David." Neither assertion was true (not one cornflake with Reagan, not one hoofbeat at Camp David). These and similar inaccuracies supported the punch line that excess access might have warped my perspective. The reviewer later explained that he'd lacked the time to check the information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dog-Bites-Dog | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...Miller, a biochemist at the University of Nevada- Reno, would not be so concerned. But Carlin is not the only area in Nevada where mining companies are digging up the land. Hundreds of geologists continue to roam the state, creating new networks of rutted roads. Exploration rigs continue to punch holes into the earth a thousand feet deep. In the mining boom towns along Interstate 80, schools are overflowing, crime has increased and business is good. "Ultimately," predicts Miller, "there could be one continuous hole in the ground that extends tens of miles along the Carlin Trend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Carlin Trend, Nevada There's Holes in Them Thar Hills | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...joke, the father who works selling stocks and bonds represents "capital," the mother who is a house-wife represents "management," and the female maid stands for "labor." The punch line is that sometimes, capital "exploits" labor while management sleeps...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: When a Joke Is No Joke | 10/18/1989 | See Source »

THIS stance by the administration--aside from denying students of their Constitutional freedom of speech--is especially repugnant because of its hypocrisy. Just two weeks ago final clubs got away with distributing punch cards under dorm-room doors just as they do every fall, without so much as a slap on the wrist...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Need to Go National? | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

Unlike Wednesday's loss to Stanford, the Crimson had trouble creating opportunities. The Quakers stifled Harvard's offense in the first half, but could not generate any offensive punch of their own, either...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: M. Booters Edge Quakers on Amen Goal | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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