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Departments such as Visual and Environmental Studies and Linguistics have had to fight tooth and nail for enough faculty appointments to meet the needs of concentrators...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Gov't Dept. Retreats To Maine | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...this kind of reform package that can help millions of people," Dole said, noting that things were now moving in the direction of his own plan. That one is even more scaled down, offering mostly subsidies and insurance reforms. By showing his peaceable side, Dole will offend the tooth- and-claw wing of the G.O.P., who say they have more to gain this November by denying Democrats any hint of a victory on health care. But as a congressional leader and presidential hopeful, Dole has to worry about leaving voters with the impression that obstructionism is a Republican Party principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Checking Out | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...Fauna and Flora, the principal wildlife-protection treaty, the global market in "medicinal" animal parts expands unabated. "The bear is like a walking bank account for poachers," says Grosz; almost all its parts are salable in Asia. South Korean folklore recommends bear gallbladder for ills ranging from convulsions to tooth decay. As a result, a bear gallbladder fetches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killing Fields | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

Since that first week of summer, I've lost tings, forgotten them places or damaged borrowed goods, sometimes a combination of the three. I borrowed a pair of pants from my new-tooth-brush-toting roommate Michael. It was his birthday and I wanted to look nice for the surprise party being thrown in his honor. At the end of the night, drunk out of my mind on Sangria, I sat on a banana. While reveling in the fact, chair dancing and smooshing it everywhere, Michael looked at me and said, "Bill, aren't those my pants you're wearing...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Crimed Tries to Master the Art of Losing | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

...Splash, Hanks sits at a bar and pours out his lace-valentine heart: "I wanna meet a woman and I wanna fall in love and I wanna get married and I wanna have a kid and I wanna go see him play a tooth in the school play. It's not much." But to ordinary, unique people -- the folks Hanks appeals to, and the folks he so smartly plays -- it's everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Hollywood's Last Decent Man | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

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