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...approached the Harvard Law School's Harkness Cafeteria tray drop-off one morning last fall, a hand appeared in the small slit in the wall that divides the kitchen from the dining room. Then I heard someone's voice on the other side of the wall offering to take my tray...

Author: By Aaron D. Bartley, | Title: High Time for a Living Wage | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

...slit-eyed world of a country village, the boy's mother Miriam conceived him mysteriously. Promised in marriage to Yosef the builder, she found herself pregnant without explanation--she had known no man, not intimately. Steeped in the malice of small-town talk, she knew not to tell the story she believed--God's archangel Gabriel had visited her at the village well one early-spring morning as she lifted her jar to climb back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesus Of Nazareth Then And Now | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...beans because they reminded him of gonads. Legend has it that when his mathematical enemies set his house ablaze and chased the fire-fleeing Pythagoras to the edge of a bean field, the great mathematician declared that he would rather die than mingle with the beans. His pursuers happily slit his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Sexy Is Chalk Dust? | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...found a suicide note from Matt, along with the songs that he wanted played at his funeral. He was hospitalized and released a few days later. When his girlfriend's parents wouldn't let him see her because he was acting unstable, Matt threatened to kill them, but instead slit his wrists. The police came, and once again he was hospitalized. Shortly afterward, Matt overdosed on cold medication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wednesday: 6:30 P.M. Matt's House | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

Stoughton and Hollis, the almost identical North Yard dorms, offer one huge room for two people. Hollis and Stoughton roommates either become bosom buddies fast or spend the year aching to slit each other's throats. In any case, they get to know each other well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorms Come in Variety of Shapes, Sizes | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

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