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HARVARD STUDENTS do indeed sleep. They do not, however, sleep in any way that would support the claim that Harvard students are like all other people. My tutorial spent 20 minutes that same day commiserating over how tired we were, after which two members promptly began to snore...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: Are You Tired? I'm Tired. | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...caulked house with a distant view of the Great Rift Valley escarpment. The shelter has a concrete floor, wire-mesh windows, no electricity and no well. There is a separate sleeping hut that the author shares with up to 15 villagers and tribal friends who, he notes, "snore like elephants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Before the Sands Ran Out THE LIFE OF MY CHOICE | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...heretofore unnoticed statesman to worldwide prominence. Television producers are a good deal more cautious. If every one of those 26 people has to give an + opening statement, which may be necessary to preserve decorum, and the first witness is the pedantic Robert McFarlane, as is now expected, a countrywide snore may rise in the first few hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Scowcroft's Concerns | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...ever stay up all night," counselled Janet Snoyer to an audience of red-eyed Big Red students last week. The Cornell Daily Sun reported that Snoyer suggested serious snoozing for snore-short students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

...attitudes toward sex and romance. Americans, to judge from the movies they make and attend, are fast, rough, raunchy lovers -- backseat studs and born- to-thrill prom queens. Canadians cannot decide whether to imitate American energy or British reserve. Germans are dogmatic and ironic by turns; and the men snore in bed, but only, as one of them explains, "to protect their women from wild animals." As for the French, who didn't invent love but certainly know how to market it, they negotiate their affairs with a roue's smile and a fatalist's shrug. C'est l'amour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Man, a Woman and Some Dogs | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

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