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...until the Reagan administration that devolution really started to take-off," he said...

Author: By Sarah E. Reckhow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fouhy: Press Neglects State Gov.'s | 11/4/1998 | See Source »

Pudding executives chose the script, written by Greg G. Lau '99 and Benjamin R. Kaplan '99, who is an inactive Crimson editor, from three other scripts. Its title is a take-off on the Cole Porter classic, "I Get No Kick From Champaign...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Chooses Political Spoof for 151st Show | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

There is no peace for the loved ones of Jessica Dubroff. The death of the seven-year-old pilot, who had been attempting to become the youngest person ever to fly cross-country, tore at the nation's heartstrings after her Cessna went down shortly after take-off during an icy rainstorm near Cheyenne, Wyoming, last April. Perhaps inevitably, Jessica's survivors are heading to court: her stepmother, Melinda Dubroff, is suing Jessica's natural mother, Lisa Blair Hathaway, over the life-insurance benefits of Jessica's father, who also died in the crash. Hathaway, for her part, has filed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...many of those young on staff editorials had connections to the Undergraduate Council and several of the candidates were Crimson editors. Candidates angry about receiving down arrows and being called WASPs, ugly or spoiled objected to "Crimson Wisdom" by Daniel C. Allen '97 and Andrew A. Green '98, a take-off of Newsweek's "Conventional Wisdom." But this year, as we experience a popular election for the second time, "Crimson Wisdom" came and went without reader comment, and only one candidate, Justin E. Porter '99, stopped me to say he felt shafted by Crimson (non) coverage of his campaign...

Author: By Shawn Zeller, | Title: READER REPRESENTATIVE | 12/10/1996 | See Source »

Kirtley's column, a "Jerky Boys" take-off which has been published since last year, reprinted conversations between Kirtley and his unknowing victims. He has, in the past, called University Health Services, University Mental Health Services and the Bureau of Study Counsel...

Author: By Shawn Zeller, | Title: READER REPRESENTATIVE | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

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