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...movie makes it seem that justice was done, in fact only 600 of the town's 1,000 residents won a money award. They are also peeved because the movie's success has scared off potential home buyers and made it difficult for residents to get health insurance. Another sore point: most of the movie was filmed in nearby Boron, not Hinkley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Getting Angry Over Erin | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...their membership. “There just are not too many takers,” says one club member, who asked not to be named, “but it’s understandable. If you were black, you wouldn’t want to stick out like a sore thumb. My instinct is that the Somerset would be delighted to have more, but my guess is that [minorities] would not be too interested.” A Taverner, gave another explanation: “These clubs are slow to reach out, but they’ve gone a long...

Author: By Samuel Hornblower, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Old Boys' Clubs | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...Birtwell said his shoulder was sore at points this morning, and at other points it wasn't, and I think that was him trying to gut it out, so I kept him out," Walsh said...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Baseball Splits at Princeton, Sweeps Cornell to Open Ivy Schedule | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...learned early on that George W. Bush could be a sore loser--when he tried to palm off conceding to John McCain in New Hampshire to an aide, and later in Michigan when he refused to call the victorious McCain at all. But we didn't know he could be a sore winner until last week when, in a New York Times interview, he batted away every opportunity to be gracious to McCain, snatching sour grapes from the jaws of victory. Reminded of how McCain had boosted turnout in the primaries, Bush snapped, "Well, then, how come he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Blinded by the Light | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...System for Travel and Reimbursement (STAR), which business travelers must use if they want their money back, is a common sore spot. Travelers, or their assistants, must answer dozens of sometimes unrelated questions just to log a simple expense...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Michael L. Shenkman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faculty Blast $112M Computer Systems | 3/21/2000 | See Source »

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