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...efforts to re-seal the door are put into play. "We attempted to close the door, but that just didn't work," one Cabot sophomore said about his struggles with his firedoor neighbors while living in Canaday last year. "We tried putting furniture in front of it, we tried rope, then we finally tried super glue. Even after that, the door would be opened some times...

Author: By Jeanne S. Pae, | Title: Beyond the Fire Door | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

...communist saw holds that capitalists will gladly sell the rope that can be used to hang them. Fidel Castro is trying to adapt that maxim to secure a financial lifeline from the U.S. It is an article of faith in Havana that if only Washington would lift the 33-year-old trade embargo, a vast infusion of American cash would rescue Cuba's economy. Last summer Castro tried to force the Clinton Administration into negotiations about improving ties by allowing more than 33,000 Cubans to flee the island for the U.S. The ploy did not work; the U.S. still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL A TIGHTER EMBARGO REALLY BRING DOWN CASTRO? | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...herd of Republicans ranging from the born-again to the libertarian, led by the china-and-crystal-sm ashing Congressman from suburban Atlanta, Newt Gingrich, the next Speaker of the House. After a short burst of conciliation on election night, he seemed disinclined to throw Bill Clinton a rope. The President, he said, would be "very, very dumb" to try to stand in the way of the new conservative agenda. And to sharpen the point of the election, he called the Clintons "counterculture McGoverniks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: Stampede! | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...seemed to be that the CIA trusted him and he was familiar with the Nhommarath area. The team's radios were antiquated. CIA and Delta Force officials say agency staff members who went to a Chicago mountaineering shop to outfit the team with climbing equipment purchased white rope; JSOC officers sent them olive-green rope that would not be spotted in the jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americans Left Behind | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...students around midfield and rope off that area--the students migrate towards the middle of the field anyway and there is absolutely no organization among them...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: And the Band Played On (II) | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

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