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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...specialty is upwardly pretentious soft porn, is puffed as a writer of something like satire, with something like a point of view. Baloney, as proved by this latest aid to heavy breathing: the smarmy tale of a fellow who learns how to stop the universe momentarily and uses the trick to undress women, then masturbate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Books of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...Gustafson who netted the overtime gamewinner in last year's opener against Brown. Later in the season Gustafson notched a hat trick and an assist in Harvard's 7-6 downing of Maine...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: From Birth to Beanpot, Gustafson Carries Stick | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...have imagined other sources for their rights besides the Almighty. The Declaration mentions "the Laws of Nature." But it immediately adds, ". . . and of Nature's God." Wisely so. The past 200 years have shown that nature is a distressingly malleable concept. It is a philosopher's parlor trick to collapse it into history (nature in time) or will (nature in us). When such philosophies seeped into politics, they spawned communism and Nazism. It is also true that God -- and various gods -- has covered a multitude of political sins over the millenni. But in the modern world, rights fare best when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Us Pray | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

Rudenstine's vision for Harvard originally revolved around providing more centralization to an extremely decentralized University. The trick was to somehow convince Harvard's various graduate schools--its proverbial "tubs"--to share space and funds more often...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs and Sarah E. Scrogin, S | Title: A President's 3-Year Journey | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...stand it. He asked me to please, please stop crying, but I couldn't. So he just gave me $10 and walked out, saying he'd never touch a kid who was crying." Christine turned 16 two weeks later. Four days after that, she would finally turn her first trick, earning $60. The next night she would score twice. "At least it's better than living at home," she shrugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Scared | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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