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...nightclubs that throw open their doors and go bust a few weeks later, raperos touch on themes ranging from racism to ecology. The city's hip-hop scene is alive with the kind of resourcefulness needed in a place where nightly electrical interruptions and the unrelenting tropical swelter can turn music making into a sweaty test of will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Havana: Hidden Havana | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

Summertime...and the journalism is easy. Construction workers swelter, air conditioners sell out--and who could live without the perennial "Tips to Beat the Heat"? How the media handled this year's "hot" story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flash: Summer Is Hot | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Helter skelter in midterm swelter. Run to a study carrel and grab shelter. Grades once high are falling fast. So, remind me why I took that class. Am I stuck in a huge morass? Or did the CUE Guide say I could pass? Now the Lamont air was filled with stress as students crammed under duress. We wanted to go to bed, but there were ten books yet unread. And as we tried to learn ID's, to avoid earning dreaded C's, we cursed students who were at ease the day midterms arrived...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: The Day Midterms Arrived | 10/25/2000 | See Source »

Miller plans to continue his directing career, shooting a mystery called Swelter, Murder in the Desert, this summer, and then beginning work on a futuristic film which will probably be shot in Brazil...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Director Builds on College Theater | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

Even though I had grudgingly enjoyed those trips to Lexington and Concord back in my grammar school days, I dragged my feet along the Freedom Trail in Boston during a recent family excursion, resentful of the family patriotism that forced me to swelter outside in 90-degree weather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Patriotic Epiphany | 7/4/1996 | See Source »

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