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Here we were, two scared, wimpy Harvard students, thrust into the the real world at its worst. Roxbury: the toughest precinct in the state, a place where shootings, stabbings, thievery, fights and druggies are all too commonplace.

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain and Benjamin N. Smith, S | Title: A Ride on the Wild Side | 4/18/1985 | See Source »

Chebrikov: No, nothing of the sort! We are going to have to live with Womack for a while: he is scheduled to remain chairman of Harvard's History department for one more year. Our only danger is that our chief moles at Harvard, the Republican Club, will froth like they...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Kremlin to Buckley, Come In | 8/14/1984 | See Source »

In The Bounty, the climax supposedly occurs with the actual mutiny, yet when the mutiny does occur towards the end of the film, it seems to come with a sense of fizzling. Bligh is too pathetic to have deserved the disruption of his ship, and Christian too wimpy to lead...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Uninspired Remake | 5/8/1984 | See Source »

Help is on the way in the form of a new book, Power Lunching: How You Can Profit from More Effective Business Lunch Strategy. Written by E. Melvin Pinsel, 57, and Ligita Dienhart, 39, the book purports to instruct readers on effective business-dining strategy. In the spirit of "you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Lunches | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

There is some cute interplay between these very earthy--both literally and figuratively--criminals and their hos', Max, a wimpy video-addict computer jock who is not even a real man in the literal sense. The professor becomes furious when he learns that visitors have been allowed into his station...

Author: By Thomas Reiss, | Title: Out of This World | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

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