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...plays absent-mindedly with his wristwatch, the soft light from his porcelain desk lamp glittering off its metal face. The smile that dances perpetually around the edges of his mouth betrays slight bemusement at all the attention he is getting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let's Go: HSA | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...aging. Its linen agency, which throughout the 1960s commanded a virtual monopoly on campus laundry service, posted a 58 percent decrease in profits last year, according to the IRS filings. The Crib, HSA's convenience store in the Harvard Union, lost nearly $14,000 last year, after showing a slight profit in fiscal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let's Go: HSA | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

Aburime, 23, is a Black male with brown eyes and a slight mustache, according to a description provided by police. He is five feet, 10 inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds, according to police...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Police Warn Cabot Students of Stalker | 10/12/1993 | See Source »

...merriment plays off an apprehension of Midler's public, if not of the star herself, that she is in a slight career trough. A decade ago, she suffered an acrimonious flop film (Jinxed) and a nervous breakdown. She rebounded into a saner life, with a doting husband and an adored daughter, and the movie stardom that had previously eluded her. But her past three films ! have fallen this side of blockbuster. Scenes from a Mall swallowed her and Woody Allen whole; Hocus Pocus was a moderately popular summer farce; she turned down the original Sister Act script to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette, Better, Best | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...Body Shop, the homeopathic anchor of the east end of Church Street, was a little out of its element geographically. With the Army/Navy Store and the Store 24 as neighbors, the 'Shop's slight trendiness stuck out a bit. But its active position in favor of animal rights made it welcome on this punky frontier, and it stayed...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Goodbye Pit, Hello Homeopathy | 9/25/1993 | See Source »

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