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...real truth, assuming it doesn't involve a weather balloon, is made harder to get at by the sometimes mutable memories of aging "witnesses" and the fact that some of the most provocative evidence is secondhand. Industrious UFOlogists may spend years tracking down slim leads like the one attributed to a former cafe owner in Taos, N.M., who told interlocutors that an old customer, a desert rat named Cactus Jack, once told her he was "out there when the spaceship came down" and saw dead aliens with blood "like tar." But despite the best efforts of Kevin Randle and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROSWELL OR BUST | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

Anestis says Gardiner, a tall, slim blonde whose usual attire is dark, tailored slacks and a blazer, is happy to put on jeans or shorts and hang out outside...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: D.C.-Bound Gardiner Prepares for Life in Politics | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Guts"--courses reputed to have either generous grading or slim workloads (or in the ideal case, both)--have been a hallmark of general requirements at Harvard since the very earliest years...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Harvard's Academic Core Gets Once-Over | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Harvard turned the tables on Yale, defeating them by a nearly identical four-second margin. Harvard also gained a mark of revenge over Princeton, defeating them by a slim .4 second margin. This close race echoed the national championship race of 1996 where Princeton edged Harvard by a measly .02 seconds...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: Lights Take HYPs; Heavies Persevere | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

OTTAWA: After a lackluster campaign touting the status-quo, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien's ruling Liberal Party has returned to power by the seat of its pants, clutching a slim, four-seat majority that will barely support any ready-made Liberal solution to such nagging problems as Qu?bec separatism, growing unemployment and a sagging national health care system. Taking up the position of chief opposition party is the Alberta-based Reform Party, whose right-wing, populist agenda dominated in the West. That was enough to push the separatist Bloc Qu?becois, the Reform Party's diehard foe, into the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome To Stasis | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

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