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Those without mad skillz using stir-fry woks probably ought to hail the "Chinese Kitchen Food Truck." It's stationed just north of the Science Center, 35 Oxford St. Large box meals go for only $3 to 3.50. Tempt fate with by capping off your meal with two fortune cookies (25c for the pair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHOPPING IN CAMBRIDGE | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

That's just one reason most record executives are still wary of the practice. Country-music hitmaker Mike Curb, best known for discovering LeAnn Rimes, vows not to use pay-for-play, fearing that the financial lure may tempt stations to start refusing songs unless they're paid. Another opponent is Richard Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur and head of V2 Records, who is worried that pay-for-play will turn listeners off by allowing inferior music on the airwaves. "If radio doesn't give the people what they want," he warns, "the people will go to other mediums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is That a Song or A Sales Pitch? | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

These are the areas where carefully spent funds can and do tempt top professors--as an aggressively-spending Stanford political science department continues to show through its recruiting of the Americanists in the Harvard government department...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faculty Tempted by Perks at Other Schools | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...manifest himself to men with all the evidence which he could show." Pascal also stated, "For it is not true that all reveals God and it is not true that all conceals God. But it is at the same time true that he hides himself from those who tempt him, and that he reveals himself to those who seek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 25, 1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

After the critical lancing MACAULAY CULKIN took for his past few acting efforts, who could tempt the young star back before the cameras? Perhaps only he who has been through the same inflation and puncturing process. At 23, writer-director HARMONY KORINE has already been lauded for the movie Kids, denigrated for the movie Gummo and received mixed reviews for his new book, A Crackup at the Race Riots. On the wholesome-to-jaded spectrum of American artistic endeavor, his work is as far from Culkin's as one could go. But he may have persuaded the young millionaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 11, 1998 | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

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