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...been imprisoned for something that I had said, I would want someone to write a letter for me," she says. "Just knowing that I have a chance to possibly stop torture or to stop what I see as gross injustice, even if there's a slight chance that something I do helps, makes it worth...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Students Question Services' Impact | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...took Boston College 20 minutes to finally find the net. With a minute left in the third quarter, Harvard was unable to score despite a two man advantage. Boston College, sensing a rare momentum shift, raced down the pool and found a slight opening in the left hand corner past junior goalie Ed Chen to bring the deficit...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: M. Water Polo Trounces Boston College | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

Everyone walking around me was wearing a slight variation on the same color scheme. You've seen it, the Gap line: inoffensive, uninspiring and uninspired, with an occasional light blue thrown in for creative good measure. Almost all were wearing jeans and most everyone had something tied around his or her waist. Although these people didn't look like they'd stepped off the pages of a J. Crew catalogue, it appeared as though they tried very hard to make it seem like they...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: Breaking The Gap Mold | 9/28/1996 | See Source »

Meet Harold Rosen, a slight, gentle-mannered 70-year-old Cal Tech Ph.D. who predates the space age by a dog's age. Yet every time you watch a live-television feed from distant parts of the earth, chances are the signal has bounced off one of the satellites he helped design for Hughes Aircraft in his 37-year career. "He is uncommonly brilliant," says his biggest fan, younger brother Ben, 63. "He's a national treasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT'S DRIVING THE ROSEN BOYS? | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...spat in 22 years. It even survived a bankruptcy and a fire-destroyed home. But now JANE PETTY, wife of paler-version-of-Bob-Dylan TOM PETTY, has filed for divorce. In an interview last year, Petty said his marriage had "taken some shrapnel. We do walk with a slight limp." Expect headlines with plays on the word heartbreaker, and some wistful songs from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 23, 1996 | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

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