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...that Trillin is a columnist. He is not particularly well-known, however, because he writes his satirical columns for The Nation, the far-left weekly magazine (a "pinko rag" the author calls it, perhaps covering himself as a patriotic infiltrator for the next Red Scare) that hides in the rear racks at Out-of-Town News and has a circulation which competes neck and neck with The Crimson's. Thus the great virtue, of this predictably superb sampling of his column, Uncivil Liberties: you actually get to read the pieces, rather than hear about them second-hand from a friend...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Laughter on the Left | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...opened their EIBL, seasons with a doubleheader at Ithaen yesterday. Navy and Princeton (6-2) sit stop the standings, with Brown (3-1) a game back. Penn (4-4) is tied with Harvard (2-2) for fourth, while Columbia (3-5). Yale and Dartmouth (6-4) bring up the rear...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Musselman Named Player of Week | 4/10/1985 | See Source »

Suddenly two men on a motorcycle appeared behind the car, and the man on the back of the bike fired a pistol through the Volga's rear window. The panic- stricken chauffeur jammed on the brakes, allowing the gunman to pump more bullets through a side window of the car. Khitrichenko was hit four times--in the head, chest, neck and wrist; less than an hour later he was pronounced dead at Lohia Hospital. His wife and the driver sustained minor injuries from flying glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India High Noon | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

Every business downtown has at least one, maybe three or four. Private homes have them. They are taped to the rear windows of half the cars in town...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bulldog Hockey Mania: The Only Show in Town | 3/21/1985 | See Source »

...contained in one body chamber with concentrated solutions of some rather harmless compounds, hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinones, confined to a second chamber. This generates a noxious spray of caustic benzoquinones, which explodes from its body at a boiling 212 degreesF. What is more, the fluid is pumped through twin rear nozzles, which can be rotated, like a B-17's gun turret, to hit a hungry ant or frog with bull's-eye accuracy. When Rue learned about the bombardier, she says, "I fell in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drafting the Bombardier Beetle ^ | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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