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...dare not print--nay, even think--what you might exclaim when you hit your first thoroughly rotten academic streak here at Harvard and realize how much you and your loved ones paid for the two books listed above. And for your $11,000 (chuck in another grand for incidentals), you get the two volumes for only 12 months. Skip a renewal payment, and you'll be over at the Coop full time, commanding one of their space-age cash registers or arranging Kleenex sale displays...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Harvard Thick and Thin | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...city banks and suburban ones that are frequently held up, are made by the'U.S. Currency Protection Corp. of Arizona and IRI Americas in Pennsylvania. The firms, though, are facing a rival system made by Scented Money Deterrent Co. of Atlanta. That device releases the odor of rotten eggs, leaving a pungent trail for police to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Funny Money | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...Mayor Bassam Shaka'a of Nablus, seemed convinced that Israel was determined to liquidate the P.L.O. and the Palestinian people as well, and were shocked by the failure of Arab states to come to their aid. The daily newspaper Al-Qudus, published in Jerusalem, denounced the Arab governments as "rotten regimes." On July 6, Israeli soldiers used bullets and tear gas to disperse a student demonstration at Bir Zeit University. Two days later, Israeli military authorities closed the university for three months. They also dismissed the mayor of Gaza, the patrician Rashad al Shawwa, 73, who thus became the sixth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut: A Fortress Under Heavy Fire | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

Actually, as Tune would probably be the first to acknowledge, it was a close race between him and his good friend and mentor Michael Bennett, who directed Dreamgirls. In a bad, in fact rotten, year for musicals, both demonstrated what an energetic and imaginative director can do with mediocre material. Dreamgirls, which opened last December, was an early hit, and "Nine," which came in at the last minute (five hours before the nomination cutoff), was a late one. But the most recent entry is the one the voters remember best. "Tommy was faced with the decision of whether to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Dude from a Different Planet | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...Beat System joins an innumerable legion of schlock paperback gimmicks now decorating cash register counters at the Coop But in contrast to the merry Preppy Handbook and the 101-things to do with-a-cat books. How To smell rotten--like the kid who stole Geometry homework in the 10th grade. The authors seem to believe what they preach arguing earnestly. "It would be a shame it [any college student] should, through simple ignorance of the system, be rejected by every medical school in the world. "Their merciless blugeoning of the language only complicates the crime: "Comparing high school...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Life in the Fast Lane | 6/20/1982 | See Source »

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