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...afterhours partying. When her friends spray-painted the names of punk bands on the tunnel walls, Karenna, ever the iconoclast, threw up names of country singers like Emmylou Harris and Kenny Rogers. One night Karenna was dancing along the tracks and headed off to stomp on the third rail. A friend pulled her back, explaining that she would be electrocuted. "I always think of that," she says. "I could have died, because I really was about to go jump on that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Convention: The Daughter Also Rises | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...taking seriously the enforcement of Title 6... when a state agency is spending its funds in a racially discriminatory manner that it (the federal government) will cut funds to the agency... there's fed money coming into the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority that are being used on racist rail projects." -Ted Robertson, march organizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where There's Pols, There's Pyres | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...since this is DVD, the sound is CD quality. That makes the overall effect more powerful than what you get at the multiplex with their ever shrinking screens and overtaxed sound systems. Plus, no more sticky floors (unless, of course, you're on the Long Island Rail Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tearjerkers to Go | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

Besides the Genzyme plant, the land the University plans to purchase is currently occupied by CSX Transportation, with much of the area covered by rail yards and warehouses. The company has a permanent easement on the land, allowing their trains to continue running through the area even if Harvard purchases...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Wins Land Auction With $151M Bid | 6/30/2000 | See Source »

...Writing with the clarity of hindsight, I may have conveyed the impression we were unhappy with the status quo. Did we rail against the second-class status of women intelligent enough to attend the world's most prestigious university...

Author: By Anne G. Davies, RADCLIFFE CLASS OF 1950 | Title: Radcliffe: Looking Backwards At Four Years | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

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