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...does she get any work done? "Well, eventually people are mostly all asleep--there are a few that stay up, but it's less of a prime-time atmosphere. Also, it's really interesting, but it's not, like, really amazing. If there were a ton of hotties in Matthews, I might get more obsessed with it. But really, it's no swooning-and-passing-out-over-your-homework material. Just neat to watch. It sort of makes my skin crawl." Ours...

Author: By Penelope A. Carter, | Title: HERE'S LOOKIN' AT YOU KID! | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...used to feel like you weren't allowed to take a book to read; now they must sell a ton of books by allowing browsing," says Medieros...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

...MASON & DIXON (Henry Holt) Thomas Pynchon's vast novel retraces the progress of the men who drew the line between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland. For all its Pynchonesque tomfooleries--a talking dog, a four-ton cheese--the tale is somber, elegiac. Mason and Dixon come to realize that their triumph means an end to the wilderness, the imposition of order on "the realm of the Sacred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE BEST BOOKS OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

Also on the first team defense was last year's Rookie of the Year, Isaiah Kacyvenski. He wasn't glamorous, but he made a ton of tackles and was a run-stuffer on a team which was impossible to run against...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Team of Destiny | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

Kevin McLaughlin is at the pointy end of Bill Clinton's spear. Late last week Lieut. McLaughlin--his call sign is "Proton" because he once was a nuclear-reactor operator--sat in the ready room of his F-18 Hornet squadron aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz, a 95,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier steaming in the Persian Gulf. If Clinton decided it was time to punish Saddam Hussein for his defiance of United Nations inspectors, Proton would climb into his $28 million Hornet--the U.S. Navy's premier fighter-attack jet--and shower Iraq with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: READY FOR THE FIRST SHOTS | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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