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...ride, the old man pays 300 rubles, worth about 50 cents at the latest exchange rate but a stiff 10% of the average pensioner's monthly income. Ordinarily, Artyom would have refused anything less than 600. "Sometimes I give them a break," he concedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View From a Cab | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

Coming off of its recent 4-2 Bean-pot Championship victory over Boston University, the Harvard men's hockey team must knuckle down for two games this weekend in Bright Hockey Center against some pretty stiff ECAC competition...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Cream of ECAC Battles at Bright | 2/12/1993 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the immigration laws impose stiff penalties on families that hire undocumented workers. Under the 1986 statutes, employers and foreign workers must sign a declaration that the employees have proper working papers. The punishment for knowingly hiring illegal aliens can include fines and six months in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Obeying the Law | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

Royal Miller, playing her lapdog/playboy husband Hector, is as stiff and starched as his shirt. The only time we can understand why squads of women supposedly fall in love with him occurs in a moment when he is leaping about alone on stage and snatches up an imaginary rapier in solitary swordplay, levelling it against a non-existent...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ART's Misinterpretation Of Shaw Is Heartbreaking | 1/29/1993 | See Source »

Maybe I've betrayed my ethnicity. Once I tell you that a barong is a stiff cotton shirt that Filipino men wear on formal occasions, you know about as much as I do about the culture of my father's birthplace. Every now and I happen upon that never-worn garment or a few photographs of relatives I barely know, but the paucity of my celebrations suggests that I deserve no prize for my embrace of my Asian-American heritage...

Author: By Dante E. A. ramos, | Title: Confessions of an Affirmative Action Maybe | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

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