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...been the way we came barging up to the Millbrook mansion on a sleepy Sunday morn in a gaudy vehicle belching green and orange smoke while Neal Cassady's voice blared from the rooftop speakers. Dr. Leary was upstairs, we were informed, sleeping one off. We left before he woke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KEN KESEY FLASHES BACK TO LEARY | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...Taking away the chalk further limits getting my name out," says Smith, who says he woke up at 7:45 each morning to draw a caricature of himself on the boards...

Author: By Tara I. Chang, Jonathan A. Lewin, and Rachel C. Telegen, S | Title: Running in a 'Popular' Election | 4/13/1996 | See Source »

...knew it was time for me to hand in my work when I woke up that morning, panicked. I had neglected to place accents on my "detentes." Ca alors! I tore open my spring binders, despondent at the prospect of reprinting the two manuscripts, 137 pages each, that had kept me up near dawn feeding the printer the night before. I grew more desperate as my Microsoft Word failed to find any suitable candidates for "search and replace." But suddenly, an epiphany. My addled brain had conflated "detente" with "deterrence"--a good old American word, without all those French accents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Real March Madness | 4/3/1996 | See Source »

...woke up to my roommates and everyone else in my hall screaming about their housing assignments," Eguchi says...

Author: By Connie Chang, | Title: Hear Ye, Hear Ye | 3/22/1996 | See Source »

...thoroughly collegiate on March 1. I woke at the ripe hour of 10:30 a.m. and immediately went to check my e-mail. At home I was a fervent anti-technocrat, but I have had to adapt-here at college, checking your e-mail is more important than that first cup of coffee. After trekking to Rubin's Deli in Brookline for lunch with a friend, I returned to Harvardland to finish up my work before the much-anticipated Freshman Formal that night. I checked my mail in the monstrosity we call a Science Center, and then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSSING THE YARD | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

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