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...remember lying in bed that day, worrying howI would get through Harvard. Now, two years later,I know that getting though is seldom the realchallenge because it's virtually guaranteed thatyou will. In the meantime, you'll have to holdfast to whatever it is you most value aboutyourself because Harvard will probably give it agood shaking up. Which, in retrospect, is notwithout benefit. After that incident with myEnglish professor, I became hell-bent on improvingmy writing. I needed, more than anything, tojustify the writer I believed I was, and the one Ihoped to become. And so, with...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: Taking Chances: My Story | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...side. Mexicans feel that our effort to fight drugs and organized crime in terms of the size of our country and the resources available is much bigger than the effort made in the U.S. Mexicans keep wondering why we seize cocaine, why we arrest corrupt policemen, and why that seldom happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexcio's Ernesto Zedillo: I WANT JUSTICE | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...fluent in French, in which her name means "green leaf." She seldom talked about herself, but it was known she had grown up in the Northeast. She had been posted to Ethiopia in the late 1950s and served in the CIA station in Finland in the early 1960s and in the Hague in the mid-1960s. In the early 1970s she had found her metier, counterintelligence--combatting opposition spies and moles--when she was appointed head of the research section in the Soviet division's counterintelligence group, then chief of the branch that maintained biographies on Soviet and East European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMES SPY HUNT | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

...sophomore, says that while the studentswho purchase the kegs for parties are more than 21years of age, B.A.T. teams are seldom present andunderage students often drink despite theUniversity regulations...

Author: By Jeremy L. Mccarter, | Title: University Can't Control Campus Binge Drinking | 5/5/1995 | See Source »

...Much of the dance this weekend spins off small theater acts which address some of the more serious social concerns young children are facing today, such as violence and drugs. Through City Step, young kids are able to express their fears and their concerns for these social ills. Very seldom does this society allow young children the opportunity--much less the forum--to express their opinions about certain situations in society. But City Step has given life to the voices of some of the most important people in our world today: children...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: City Step Promotes Children | 4/29/1995 | See Source »

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