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Merely by restoring the payout to its traditional level, Harvard could tap into its financial good fortune and pass the savings on to its students...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvard Has Funds To Raise Student Aid | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...picture of the album for those who the music inspires to dash across the park to Tower Records after dinner. While the presence of TVs seems incongruous at first, the programming adds a more intellectual note than the sports game currently showing at Grafton or Brew Moon. With tap beers ranging from $3 to $4, a stop at the bar is well within student budgets...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: hoppin | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...just beer. Beer from a three-liter can. Do you realize how big a three-liter can of beer is? You practically need a tap...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Nagano a No-Go | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

...proctologist. Or say you're shopping with a female friend, and she has just spent the last 3 hours trying to find the perfect brown shirt-the last 3,000 shades of brown are unacceptable because apparently they make her "look like a potato." You get her attention and tap your watch, indicating to her that you could have purchased an entirely new wardrobe and knitted her a brown shirt by now, and you wish to leave this hell of fashion indecisiveness before it's too late. International Signs are everywhere, used not just in emergencies but in the events...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: The Universal Language | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

...after the story broke, in a painful moment, the President shifted from a weak denial to a blustering one, demanding the nation listen to him this time (as if we had not been last week when he gave us a non-denial denial). The voice was stronger, but the tap-dance continued: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky." Define the ambiguous "sexual relations." Note the Ciceronian use of the perjorative as well as demonstrative pronoun, "that." He then left the room, taking no questions. We are told he won't do so until...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Say It Ain't So, Mr. President | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

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