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...route to Cuba is not straightforward. Only limited flights are available for the journey from the U.S. to the communist country. The class has not yet determined whether it will board a charter plane in Miami or fly to Cuba from Canada...

Author: By Yingzhen Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Film Students Plan Voyage to Havana | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...consequence of the long list of national rivals that fell just short, Harvard once achieved the less straightforward method of making the national tournament...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Hopes to Bring Its Best Game to NCAA Home Crowd | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

...knowledge of gambling theory also helped him get married. Two years into his job at Rand, Morris went to Reno with his girlfriend, Anne, whom he wanted to marry but feared would decline his proposal. He won a dollar following a straightforward technique at the roulette table: Bet a dollar on red, if you lose bet two dollars on red, if you lose again bet four dollars on red, and so on and so on. When the board finally comes up red, you win a dollar. He gave the dollar to his girlfriend in 20 nickels, who lost...

Author: By Daniel K. Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Morris Code | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

Committee members said they hope to talk to professors about ways they feel the process could be made more straightforward...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Examines Hiring Practices | 11/5/2002 | See Source »

Lewis, 68, former CEO of Progressive, an insurance company, doesn't despise the czar quite as much, but he has been battling him even harder. The reasons for Lewis are more straightforward. He has been referred to by colleagues as a "functional pothead." He spends half the year on a $16.5 million, 255-ft. yacht, where he smokes pot regularly; he even got arrested in New Zealand on drug charges a few years ago, he told the Plain Dealer. He is one of the main backers of the radical Nevada proposal, having given heaps of money to the Marijuana Policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Politics Of Pot: CAN IT GO LEGIT? | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

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