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...think it's a question of consistency. For instance, when you walk into lecture and find your professor wearing green pants, a bright yellow tie and a purple blazer you tend to get annoyed at the man regardless of how brilliant, nurturing and wise he is. It's the same with the sprinklers--it just doesn't make sense to run them when it's been raining for three days straight...

Author: By David H. Goldbrenner, | Title: Some Modest Proposals | 11/1/1995 | See Source »

Realistically, though, many students believe that these problems will never become an issue. After all, if they found themselves in a "real" emergency, the wise ambulance driver would take the patient to a "real" hospital. However, as long as UHS purports to boast full-service emergency care, and not simply to serve as a makeshift clinic, it should live up to its responsibility to ensure that the patients get immediate and expert care...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: UHS Is Just Not 'E.R.' | 10/24/1995 | See Source »

...think we have the skills and the personnel to continue to do great. Recruiting-wise we are getting stronger. We will lose three seniors that are important to this team, but if we can fill their positions I think we can only get better...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: W. Soccer's Newest Shooting Star: Freshman Naomi Miller | 10/24/1995 | See Source »

Well, what can we say? The University's decision is a policy that will benefit students and therefore deserves our praise. The decision is a wise one because it may help save Harvard from the shame of having only nine student spectators at the Harvard-Dartmouth game. (This was the number of students who purchased Harvard-Dartmouth tickets in advance of the deadline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Tickets: Free at Last | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...grim year for celebrity couples in Britain, the latest marital casualty has prompted the most schadenfreude of all. Alas, the once golden union of KENNETH BRANAGH and EMMA THOMPSON is now asunder. Just before photos of Thompson, 36, holding hands with her Sense and Sensibility co-star Greg Wise, 29, turned up in the tabs, the thinking gossip's Charles and Di announced the split themselves, blaming the long stretches they spend working apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 16, 1995 | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

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