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...totally entered recruiting on a whim," Gahan says. "I thought, why not, and handed my resume in. My mom characterizes it as `thoughtlessness', and my friends would call it `spontaneity," I suppose...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: Senior Gahan an Aggressive Competitor | 4/30/1994 | See Source »

...most respected universities in America treats its students so poorly? I am speaking specifically about Harvard's housing system, in which students are treated as random objects of varying shapes, sizes and colors which must be evenly distributed among houses. Students are numbers to be arranged at the whim of the great socialized, politically correct arbiter: the Housing Lottery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Lottery Hurts Students | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...whim, the trio goes to the sea. They rent a house by the beach and spend the summer there. They have a glorious time of it, with a few minor incidents. Catherine is extremely jealous when Jules and Jim don't pay any attention to her because they are so engaged in a game of dominoes. Jim is attracted to Catherine, but he respects Jules so much that he does not take advantage of the fact that Catherine is also attracted to him. As the summer ends, Jules proposes to Catherine, and she accepts...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: `Jules and Jim' a Jewel | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...whim, I grabbed Volume 20 from 1973. After rolling through January, I came to the February issue, where, to my surprise, I found an interview with Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman...

Author: By Michael R. Colton, | Title: Voulting Playboys | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...points imperiously at her wedding ring -- "No, I will not marry any of these boring girls" -- and so on up to Paul Taylor's Airs. As White Oak continues to tour (Washington; Cleveland, Ohio; Atlanta; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, are among the upcoming cities), Misha will vary the jokes on whim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: Thoroughly Modern Misha | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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