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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than decry violence against women; we claim our right to be ourselves--on our own initiative, with our own strength. We don't need to go running to someone else's arms and we don't need, as the Pitches' closing lullaby suggests, to go to sleep. We need to wake up--NOW. Carloyn Greaves '86-7 Alison Rader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pitches | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

...didn't have to sit in them. But alas, you do, no matter what your knees tell you. Thinking about crossing your legs? Forget it. And as soon as the 350-pound woman in the seat in front of you puts her seat back to go to sleep, you can forget you ever had knees until you arrive at the airport...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: The Plane Truth | 4/28/1987 | See Source »

Most people hate to fill out an income tax return; Tommy Robinson must be able to do it in his sleep. IRS investigators say Robinson, a $170-a-week maintenance man in West Palm Beach, Fla., filed 350 fraudulent tax returns this year, claiming $1.5 million in refunds, one of the largest such scams ever uncovered by the IRS. Brought before a magistrate last week, Robinson, 30, muttered something about a "misunderstanding." If he is convicted, the misunderstanding could cost him $100,000 in fines and 50 years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: Many Unhappy Returns | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...definitely a spur-of-the-moment thing," said Anthony B. Romano '90. "No one wanted to go to sleep because it was such a pretty night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Frosh Spend Night in Yard | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

...pursued their usual interests. Plimpton arrived in Florida only hours before Thursday's afternoon press conference. He sat at the bar -- a tall, gangly man, who resembles a preppy, perpetually disoriented tropical bird -- and nursed a gin and tonic while moaning that he had had only a few hours sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Sweet Charity | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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