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This is your chance--the Wursthouse was gone before you even set foot on campus, you let the Tasty slip through your fingers, but now here it is, the chance to finally make your stand and save the Cambridge of the little guy. Not that Baskin-Robbins is exactly the Little Shoppe Around the Corner, but as an independent franchise operation that's been here for thirty years. It will do for the purposes of this argument. Do you really want Cambridge to turn into the Mall of America II? Do you really want to see the birth...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, | Title: A Bow St. Revolution For All | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...unbelievable influx of media and politics--a real "out of the box" experience--we had to return home to fair Harvard. Somehow, the real world looked a whole lot better--if politics can count as reality. We watched the lights come down from the rafters and Chris Matthews slip into trench coat to depart. For most of New Hampshire, the night was over. Gore and McCain were surely going to bed happy only to wake up to another day in another state. We finally attained our few moments of vicarious fame, and had to go home on the slick roads...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman and Frances G. Tilney, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Hit me with your best shot | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...received in the last twelve months. Guy guessed five while her opponent upped the ante to seven. Both grossly underestimated the musical prowess of this "crazy" teen heart-throb who boosts 21 musical accolades in this past year alone. Guy, being farther off the mark, watched the grand prize slip right out of her reach: a signed Britney Spears doll...

Author: By A.c. VAN Der zee, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Losing the Britney Barbie | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...Tampa Bay player, in headlines 2 Santa __, Calif. 3 Word in a recent Clinton Freudian slip 4 Plugging away 5 A network that has agreed to hire more minorities 6 Hope-Crosby destination 7 "__ Bill" Bradley 8 Nation tightening controls on the Net 9 Marked with streaks 10 Fed. that dissolved in 1991 12 Med. school course 17 Bottommost 19 Osama bin __ (possible link to suspected Algerian terrorists) 21 Interneuron has sued A.H.P. over __/phen 22 Debunked mentalist Geller 24 TV's Jennings 27 Katmandu tongue 29 Baseballer at State of the Union 33 Clinton would require a photo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Feb. 14, 2000 | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

While the chat rooms are filling a void for millions of men, the gay community's relationship with AOL is more of a love-hate affair. In 1998 an AOL employee let slip the identity of gay naval officer Timothy R. McVeigh to a Navy investigator, resulting in McVeigh's discharge for violation of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. AOL issued a public apology, but complaints have persisted that AOL holds gay customers to different, stricter standards, both in chat rooms and on personal profiles. "There's a sense," says Cummings, "that they don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dating on AOL: You've Got Males | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

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