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...time you reach him, Jobs will know it. He'll bat your slightly probing questions away like bugs. He'll smash your really probing questions in mid-sentence like conspiratorial vials of poison. As one journalist who has covered the man for many years says, "he can smell fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Seven Veils of Steve Jobs | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

...higher grades prior to 1973—before Radcliffe College’s historic agreement with Harvard which eventually lead to her demise as an independent undergraduate institution? Why did women’s grades decrease while the percentage of Dean’s listed students increased dramatically? I smell a rat. Maybe Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 has inadvertently assisted the Women’s Studies committee and its research... again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...with gas or electric machines," he wrote. "Why not switch to manual or push lawn mowers?" And our hearts were warmed by a Durango, Colo., woman's idea: "You didn't mention drying laundry on clotheslines. Remember getting into bed that first night after washday when sheets smelled fresh? That smell is right up there with that of baking bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 30, 2001 | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...Assuming I'm not still here, I'll remember the smell of justice: 36 people who haven't showered for days...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roving Reporter | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...were killed during the Russian offensive. Neither the Russian military nor the Moscow-appointed Chechen administration has responded to appeals to remove the remains, and local people worry that the horrible odor that haunted them last summer will return when the cold weather ends. Outside another foul smell assaults her nostrils: the cellars of the buildings are filled with raw sewage that has gathered there over the last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Ruins of Grozny | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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