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...This is the boringest stall! Strain your wits, women...

Author: By Andrea Shen, | Title: The Metaphysical Writing on the Wall (and Desks) | 12/17/1985 | See Source »

...hand, it seems the tenants had a clear-cut case. Some had been illegally evicted and Columbia had been ordered by the city to repair the others' apartments in the north wing, but continued to stall. After tenants filed a lawsuit, Columbia offered to negotiate. But the university refused to commit itself to a date for completing repairs. Columbia officials insisted that tenants simply ought to trust the university to act in good faith. The tenants were not convinced. Still homeless, they went back to court...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Disaster In Morningside Heights | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

...worried. Our bathrooms are coed (my parents don't know), and yesterday I saw one of the new sophomore football players go into the shower with an industrial-sized bottle of shampoo. While I was blow drying my hair, I saw him stumble out of the shower stall, smiling and singing "10,000 Men of Harvard." I went into the shower next, and--my parents warned me about this--the shampoo bottle was empty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dull the Pain | 10/15/1985 | See Source »

Congressional leaders invited to listen to the speech were predictably unimpressed. House Speaker Tip O'Neill commented that the President sounded as if he was "trying to stall for time." Said Republican Senator Danforth: "One speech does not make a policy." Reagan, however, did shore up resistance by some Republicans against the Democrat-led drive for protectionism. Said Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz: "We have to have legislation that at least matches the President's rhetoric and perhaps goes beyond it." But, he mused, "Are we going to limit presidential discretion? That is the $64,000 question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Barriers | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

Retired Pirate John Milner offered more curious recollections of how he got greenies: they were placed anonymously inside his locker. "They were in my stall, that's all I know," he explained. As a sidelight, Milner also claimed to have seen some "red juice," a fruit juice and amphetamine concoction, in the locker of Willie Mays when both played for the New York Mets in the early '70s. "The Willie Mays?" asked Defense Attorney Adam Renfroe. "Willie Mays -- the great one," replied Milner. An angry Mays denied the charge, and his doctor told CBS that the red liquid was cough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Cocaine Agonies Continue | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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