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I managed to work out on real snow a few more times (and it was not nearly as bad), but the coming of spring complicated things. Even in Lake Placid, the snow lasts only three or four months a year. Leaving eight months of hot, snowless weather when the nearest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Is a Warm Gun on a Cold Day | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

Hypertechnical? The law's single technicality was that ballots be counted by 5 p.m., Nov. 14. This was hardly a law riddled with minutiae. It had a simple, clear standard. The court's real problem is not technicality but legality, what it disdainfully terms "sacred, unyielding adherence to statutory scripture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Our Imperial Judiciary | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

The Gore campaign, on the other hand, may be only too happy to highlight the Cheneys' collective unyielding conservatism - if only to emphasize the rift between an increasingly centrist American electorate and the hard-right tendencies of the couple George W. Bush has chosen to act as presidential proxies.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second Lady-in-Waiting: Asset or Liability? | 7/26/2000 | See Source »

Budnitz employs four women as narrators, all from different generations of the same family, who together grapple with the inconclusive questions of human existence. Ilana's narration greets, and scares, the reader first. Ilana is a woman of the old country, probably Russia, who somehow falls in love with a...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: If I Told You Once, It Would Be Enough | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

Further we are confused that the staff, which ordinarily is so unyielding in its defense of the University's non-discrimination policy, does not see the problem that the existence of the Radcliffe Trust represents. Even if the Trust remains in technical compliance with the policy, it will have a...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A New Era for Women | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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