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...brings a lunch box to work, takes his turn making coffee, sits with his employees in the lunchroom. Yes, he has paid off some debts and put aside some money for his children's education, but his only real indulgence has been to buy a $3,000 surround-sound system for watching movies at home. He has watched Top Gun 12 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH STAKES WINNERS | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...Americana. Like the students on this campus, the bar's aesthetic hides its real purpose. While the students are, generally, a national brain trust, the Grille is actually the representation of the institutional objectification of women. After midnight, drunken final club boys start carousing intimately with the women who surround them, absorbed as they are in the myth of immediate gratification. Having taken on a life of its own, this so-very-American notion of instant recompense, having directly transferred from the consumer sphere, now dominates the sexual mores of American men. Because sports men at Harvard are more like...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: The Grille Gratifies | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

...melodies are not overwhelming or aggressive. Most of the work is done by the moody atmospherics that surround the central tune: intermittent but well-used keyboards, sporadic background vocals, a distant but assured bass. This is a mature, well-crafted debut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: RESERVOIRS OF EMOTION | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

Members of the Harvard community and the communities that surround Harvard should feel free to contact us with any concerns they may have...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis and Theda Skocpol, S | Title: Logical Progress For PBHA | 12/6/1995 | See Source »

Canada said parents can help solve urban problems by better preparing their children for the realities that surround them...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Author Decries Violence in America | 10/25/1995 | See Source »

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