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Jennifer Kimball '95 thought she had taken all the necessary precautions, carefully throwing out all of her food and trash in liners before going...

Author: By Jeremy A. Dauber, | Title: Brown Mice Invade Stoughton North | 10/9/1991 | See Source »

...Examines the basic dynamics of dominance, submission and cleanliness in the context of taking out trash, sweeping, damp-dusting, spot-washing, and waxing Harvard students' rooms, and scrubbing their toilets. Note: This course consists of two intensive weeks before and after Commencement. Sign up in Weld Basement...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Cleaning Toilets for the Core | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

...were Jack London stories, episodes of The Untouchables on TV and the Gospels at Sunday Mass. But it was the gritty realism of Nelson Algren's hobo novel, Somebody in Boots, that first gave Sayles the idea of becoming a professional writer. "Algren wrote from neck-deep in the trash of American culture, the only place I was ever likely to be," he says. After graduating from Williams College, Sayles supported himself with a series of odd jobs, ranging from nursing-home attendant to meat-packer in a sausage factory, while writing story after story. A sharp-eyed editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neck-Deep in The | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

Forget everything you ever learned about the U.S. government. You can toss it all -- the separation of powers, the electoral college and even the pocket veto -- into the trash can. Then pick up P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores, a riotously funny and perceptive indictment of America's political system. You'll stop reading only when you stop laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Deficit Of Laughs | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

...stash the rotting, skinless corpses. Or they eat them filleted, with a glass of wine, or live and with the skin still on when there's no time to cook. It's not even the body count that matters anymore. What counts is the number of ways to trash the body: decapitation, dismemberment, impalings and (ranging into the realm of the printed word) eye gougings, power drillings and the application of hungry rodents to some poor victim's innards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why Don't We Like The Human Body? | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

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