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...town to work in." The half-mocking nickname he has earned from fellow cops is "Father O'Connor," and he will joke and scold and reason with a cranky teenager, and listen for a long time to a young mother whose record of staying off drugs is not quite spotless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Soul of a Small Town | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Next week, the Crimson team hopes will continue its spotless record against the hopelessly incompetent Harvard Independent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Beats Alumni, 23-2 | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...Next week, the Crimson team hopes will continue its spotless record against the hopelessly incompetent Harvard Independent...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Crimson's Softball Team Wins Again | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

Like many of eBay's merchants, the Anzardos are proud of their spotless service record: they've received more than 300 positive-feedback ratings on the site's system, which lets prospective buyers gauge the honesty of a seller before sending off a fat check in the mail. However, a small group of parasites, including a Florida eBay user who was recently ordered to pay $23,000 in restitution, continue to plague this electronic marketplace. Two-thirds of all Internet fraud complaints last year were directed at auction sites, according to the National Consumers' League. And antique dealers, who quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's One Big Market | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...intriguing as such musings are, theories are made flesh outside of laboratories. A persuasive anecdotal demonstration is occurring in a spotless apartment on the struggling South Side of Madison, Wis., where a graduate student named Paul Cardis is revisiting a former insurance processor named Delilah Bell. Five years ago, Bell's fiance died of drug- and alcohol-related pneumonia, leaving her to raise their four children alone. To Bell, his death was worse than needless. It was a betrayal, and alternating bouts of anger and despair reduced her to a state close to paralysis. "I would talk to my mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should All Be Forgiven? | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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