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...Special elections are designed to fill vacancies, I sincerely hope no one is relying upon them to 'solve our legitimacy problem,'" he wrote. "While that is a nice thing to toss out every so often, it doesn't seem so apropos...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Overrides Burton, Sets New Special Election Date | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...confined to Grille use. Many merchants and bar owners around the area quickly noticed the increase in the use of fake licenses from the Big Apple, and some went so far as to ban the use of New York IDs. The number of busts mounted, prompting some students to toss their hard-won prize away. "I knew people were getting caught with it, and I didn't want to get caught," said one first-year, who requested anonymity...

Author: By G. M. Graff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In Vito Veritas: Mafiosi Come to Harvard Yard | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

Before the video camera rolls at a shoot, adult performers present each other with identification and valid--less than 90-day-old--HIV tests to prove that neither performer carries the virus. The exchange is routine and ritualistic, like a coin toss before a football game. I was watching and noticed that Marylin Star's driver's license read Kathryn Akahoshi, prompting me to ask why this blond had a Japanese name. She had become a stripper in Calgary while still a teenager, hitting Los Angeles in the mid-'90s to enter the adult-video business and then diving into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street's Deep Throat | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Even through the grainy newsreels, we can see what the people at the time saw: the radiant smile, the eyes flashing with good humor, the cigarette holder held at a jaunty angle, the good-natured toss of the head, the buoyant optimism, the serene confidence with which he met economic catastrophe and international crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: (1882-1945) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...intend to mislead you. This was not an out-of-the-way excursion for me. For most of my childhood, I lived a mere pumpkin toss away from the woods that the Headless Horseman and other ghosts are rumored to have haunted. I passed through Sleepy Hollow and its brother town, Tarrytown, all the time. Its 7-11 and Baskin Robbins were perfect spots for midnight snacks. I ran cross-country races in some of the town's back woods. I even took my SAT's at Sleepy Hollow High School. But, through all those years, I was entirely unaware...

Author: By Warren Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "I Want to See Dead People": A Tour of Sleepy Hollow | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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