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...least popular organization on campus. According to a 1990 study, that honor goes to--you guessed it...The Crimson. (Probably because its writers overuse parentheses. And sentence fragments.) I haven't lost a lot of sleep over this study. The Crimson does some good things. We screw up a lot, too. The point is, as an institution, The Crimson does a heck of a lot more good for the people who work on it than it does for the people who read...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Lame, Lame, Lame | 10/18/1991 | See Source »

...army leaders, a nine- member delegation headed by Secretary-General Joao Baena Soares of Brazil was dispatched to Port-au-Prince at week's end. If the junta does not back down, the organization has resolved to call another emergency meeting to plan further turns of the screw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti One Coup Too Many | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...about real life. The contestants really are the judo instructors, students and bartenders they say they are. They really did go on dates, to sushi bars, dance clubs and football games. Some really did hate each other. ("He talked my ear off all night long.") Some really did screw each other. ("We topped off the date with a 10-hour mattress marathon...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Theater. Reality. Babes. | 10/9/1991 | See Source »

...instead of saying anything clever about Matt Groening's brilliance, I'd like to look at the Simpsons' relationship to the Fox network. What makes the Simpsons so funny, at the most basic level, is that they are losers. Given an opportunity to screw-up--lose a million-dollar law suit, lose a bet, louse up on the job, fail at school--the Simpsons, at least Bart and Homer, will almost invariably come through. No matter how stupid our children are at school, they will never match Bart. No matter how badly we do our jobs, Homer does his worse...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: They're Not OK, We're OK | 10/9/1991 | See Source »

...Screw talk," he growled. "I want my plate...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The Prefect Crime | 9/17/1991 | See Source »

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