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...WOULD NOT ask Paul Tsongas to donate money to Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. You would not expect Iraq's United Nations representative to vote for the resolution condemning his country in the Gulf War. You would not count on a sane squirrel to stop mid-stride to let a dog catch him in a mad dash across the Yard...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: The Foundation for Intercultural Hypocrisy | 3/6/1992 | See Source »

...Pageant last July, testifies that he raped her. But in his natural habitat, the boxing ring, Mike Tyson is a creature in - implacable forward motion. He just keeps coming, and you go down. He cuts you like a buzz saw, crushes you like a tree falling on a sleepy squirrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Judgment of Iron Mike | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Frye had worked in the mine only since the previous October, when he was called back to work after a long layoff. He was a quiet man who enjoyed squirrel hunting and had a 12-year-old son and a 17-year-old daughter. A few weeks before he was killed, Frye told his wife Gail about a close call he had at the mine. "It was like he knew when something was going to happen," says Gail. "I'd ask him, 'Don't that scare you? How can you go back in there?' He'd say, 'You just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor The Curse of Coal | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...year. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'd like to be Harvard President, although, come to think of it, the one person I know who went to Harvard was my cousin Irving, who later had a nervous breakdown in which he put on a squirrel costume and tried to climb the Empire State Building, so maybe its not such a hot idea after all. Sincerely, Allen Konigsburg (Woody "Allen...

Author: By Brian D. Reich, | Title: New York State of Mind | 11/13/1990 | See Source »

...representatives of industry have a claim to participate in such decisions. Some in this Administration and its predecessor have criticized the Endangered Species Act and shown a willingness to subordinate biological evidence to political expediency. Such was the case with the spotted owl and the Mount Graham squirrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Down with The God Squad | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

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