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Harry S Truman relied on Dunlop to help with steel prices; Dwight D. Eisenhower called on him to end a rail crisis; and John F. Kennedy asked him to assist in preventing labor disputes at missile construction sites. Richard Nixon sought his advice on wage and price guidelines...

Author: By Ella A. Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Dean, Labor Secretary Dies | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...hard to pinpoint exactly where this gleam comes from. Frontman Halstead’s vocals are as whisperingly fragile as on his recent solo album, Sleeping on Roads. The instrumentation is a sort of chamber country affair, with pedal steel and keyboards filling out the central piano and guitar. The key may be the inspired use of space—the music never builds to more than a jaunty bounce (as on “Billy Oddity”). A plangent line like “It’s hard to miss you,” sung repeatedly over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

...victor when he whipped out his finest summer accomplishment—his newly pierced penis.  The scene, which one witness equated to a tad pole dangling from a meat hook, garnered looks of horror from friends. The normally staid Benny explained why he opted to have a steel ring pierced through the head of his beloved member and out of the end of his urethra as the first decoration on his otherwise unadorned, pasty white body. “Actually, I wanted a tiny yellow smiley face tattoo on the inside of my wrist,” Benny...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy | 9/25/2003 | See Source »

Sporting bright orange booths and stainless steel chairs, a revamped Greenhouse Cafe opened to Science Center patrons yesterday—minus a popular tasty fried treat...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Greenhouse Cafe Gets a Face-lift | 9/10/2003 | See Source »

...photons would produce an amplified signal. In 1960 Theodore Maiman built the first working laser (short for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), a coherent beam of electromagnetic energy produced by light waves traveling the same path. Today the devices are ubiquitous: guiding rockets for the military, cutting steel, unclogging arteries in the O.R.--and playing your favorite Radiohead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Big Thing | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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