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...first-years scratch their heads over what four houses to list in next week's housing lottery, the once-heated debate over making housing assignments totally random has become all but nonexistent...

Author: By Christopher R. Mcfadden, | Title: Lottery Fever Hits Yardlings | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...critics guessing? One would like to think so. Why else would Keillor, wry humorist and folksy radio personality, populate his stories with Neanderthals? Many of Keillor's narrators and protagonists, perplexed by the emotional machinations of modern women, can only shrug their shoulders, reach for another beer and perhaps scratch themselves. One story, written in verse, has the narrator muse...

Author: By Jay C. Shafer, | Title: Why Can't You Guys Just Get It Together? | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...fatal virus lives in the saliva of an infected animal. A scratch or a bite from an infected animal are the most common means of transmission, McCabe said...

Author: By Emilie L. Kao, | Title: Experts Warn Harvard Of Rabid Raccoons | 2/9/1994 | See Source »

Garzone puts down his sax case and goes through a door to the other half of The Willow--the bar. When he opens the door, the TV can be heard on top of some stilted conversation. There's only one person at the bar when Garzone buys a scratch ticket from a machine. "The jazz scene around here is very dead," he says. "The town and the people gave up on it. When the clubs starting closing, a lot of the musicians gave up and moved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Garzone is now | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...certain things because I wanted this company to survive. Now, some of us had differences of opinion, and I daresay Barry Diller was not the only one who left at that time. The only difference is that in the motion picture business in Hollywood, if somebody gets a scratch, right away it's cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paramount Chairman Martin Davis, the Odd Man Out | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

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