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According to Wrinn, the delay in listing thesecond arrest in the blotter stemmed from HUPD'slack of concrete evidence to charge Victoria withthe Adams burglary...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Adams House Student Catches Thief in the Act | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...says Erica, a blond senior at Valencia High School. She's usually the only girl out here, and you can see that's part of the thrill--to draw in some slacker with nothing but an art-project hairdo and more hormones than r.p.m. and then smoke him. A slack-eyed Fonz named Marcus gets out of a car and spins over to impress Erica with how many times he can say cool in a sentence, a rebel without a clue. She isn't here to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Dean All Over Again | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Raiders burned the Crimson out of the blocks, taking a 24-14 lead midway through the half as sophomore guard Damian Long and junior shooting guard Mike Beam struggled to pick up Hill's slack at the point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scott Steps Up | 2/10/1998 | See Source »

What gives this the overtone of Greek tragedy is how utterly avoidable it was, if the President had exercised the slightest bit of restraint. Already given a lot of slack by voters who believed he was an adulterer but elected him anyway, the President had only to comply with the minimal standard of presidential marital conduct: Don't have sex in the White House with a woman not your wife (no one thought to add "intern"). In these sexually perilous times, we all know lawyers and businessmen who won't meet in a hotel room with a colleague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Ken Starr, Gumshoe | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...course, with public opinion on trade policy, as with entitlement policy, there is a certain amount of slack. Most Americans don't follow the ins and outs of the latest Uruguay Round. As long as there's no "giant sucking sound," many Americans are more or less indifferent...

Author: By Ira W. Carnahan, | Title: Ballot Box 1, Cash Box 0 | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

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