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...This lady is here every night and we talk a lot,” Moura says, gesturing towards one office, trash bags in hand. “She tells about her day and what she’s going...

Author: By Candice N. Plotkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Janitor Fights For Extra Hour | 4/20/2005 | See Source »

...pallid glow of a lone emergency light, the lawmakers went about their business as usual. Since the bells normally used to call the Senate to order had been knocked out, a clerk gained the attention of the nation's most exclusive debating society by thumping loudly on a metal trash can. Quipped Majority Leader Robert Dole: "We work in the dark most of the time anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights Out on Congress | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...film in which each played himself; from his position as chief after 34 years on the force because, he said, of his frustration with the courts and smalltown politics; in Stockbridge. Obie and Guthrie, a resident of nearby Washington, Mass., became friends after the clash over trash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 12, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Virtually every day, Soviet newspapers fulminate about rampant U.S. censorship, persecution of dissidents, forced labor, religious discrimination and telephone tapping. Film of homeless Americans sleeping on subway grates and bag ladies foraging through trash cans has become so standard on Soviet TV that at least a few viewers must be convinced that all of New York City consists of such unfortunates. Recalling the concentration camps of the Nazi era, a professor serving as a commentator for one show tells his audience, "The U.S. is going through a prison boom; camps for dissidents are hastily being built there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Countering America's Crusade | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...vomited into a double plastic bag. Not a molecule of stomach content ended up anywhere else. When I was done, I carried the bag to the restroom, tied it, and placed it in the trash receptacle. One of my accomplices spilled a bag of jelly beans. She meticulously picked up each one. As was the plan, Harvard workers did not have to clean up vomit, jelly beans, or any other nonexistent “remnant” of our protest...

Author: By Matthew R. Skomarovsky, | Title: I Vomited, But The Room Remained Immaculate | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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