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...Veritones competed at the Immanuel Congregational Church against Brandeis's Voicemale, Connecticut College's William Street Mix, RPI's Rusty Pipes, the University of Illinois' Rip Chords and Skidmore's Bandersnatchers...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, | Title: Veritones Jam in Connecticut Show | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

Mostly, they are raging lyrics, ripping throats and blazing guitars, with a generous helping of manic screeches and sirens. "Check" and "Get Back" grab your imagination from the onset, and grip you with iron jaws. The movement is crazy, with rip, roar and brazen brakes...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zebras Get Out of Orange County | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...moment when everyone would agree that Ken Starr's investigation was the institutional expression of a national consensus, namely that the President's relationship with Lewinsky was not simply wrong but criminal. That means it was something that it was the proper business of government to discover, interrogate, rip to pieces, expose and punish. What happened of course is that most people signaled, through polls and then on Election Day, that maybe they didn't feel that way. As the events of December made plain, how those people felt didn't matter much. Even so, Clinton's most headlong pursuers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where The Right Went Wrong | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...McGwire's locker, the slugger explained that he used it to protect himself from the muscle tears that so often plague finely conditioned athletes, especially those few so well muscled as he, and he left it at that. Though he was criticized, McGwire marched ahead, not even pausing to rip off the head of the reporter who'd gone peeking into his locker. What kind of a modern athlete would fail to do that? As for "andro," whatever else it does, it can't help a player's timing, his hand-eye coordination, his ability to discern a slider from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark McGwire': A Mac For All Seasons | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

Fortunately, "Osama's buyers weren't physicists, and the people selling to him were trying to rip him off," says an Energy Department official. The enriched uranium they were offered turned out to be low-grade reactor fuel unusable for a weapon. Another con man tried to sell them radioactive garbage, claiming it was "red mercury," a supposedly lethal Russian bomb the CIA says never existed. Frustrated, bin Laden instead settled on chemical weapons, which are easier to manufacture. Although U.S. intelligence officials have been unable to pinpoint hidden caches, they suspect that during a five-year stay in Sudan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Hunt For Osama | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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