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...trucks and watch children use Lego sets to haul sticks out of imaginary forests. In the current struggle, Douglas County is ground zero, likely to take as direct an economic hit as any site in the region. "Something is going to happen in the next few months that will rip the rug right out from under us," says Lonnie Burson, who works in a sawmill and presides over the union, Local 2949, that represents 3,400 lumber- and millworkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Owl vs Man | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

Concerned with the increasing intolerance on campus, members of the Progressive Alliance for Life want to bring to your attention recent incidents. The alarming rate at which those who disagree with our views rip down our posters continues to go unnoticed, while the few that stay up are defaced without hesitation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defacing Posters is Censorship | 5/25/1990 | See Source »

...Tigers' season-ending rip-roaring win over Harvard (10-6 overall, 6-1 Ivy) gives Princeton (6-1 Ivy) a share of the Ivy title, forcing the Crimson to split the crown for the second consecutive year. The title is the Crimson's eighth-straight Ivy championship...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Tigers Knot Netwomen For Title With 6-3 Win | 5/9/1990 | See Source »

...have put the university on notice that recent racial incidents cannot go unpunished. "The issues have been burning for years," she says. "We'll take to the streets, do whatever it takes, any means it takes." For her efforts, she has found threats in the mail and MANDELA-LUCKETT, RIP scrawled on the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bigots in The Ivory Tower | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...boarded the flight, I felt guilty again. Who was I to rip off Trump, just because he was rich and I was jealous? My in-flight reading didn't do much to soothe my conscience. Kant had a whole example about the categorical imperative against swindling the selfish and well-to-do. The New York Times featured an article about the new Democratic leadership's commitment to "equal opportunity, but not equal outcome." My Ec 10 sourcebook--well, you can imagine what it had to say about robbing entrepreneurs...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: One Trump, No Heart | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

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