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...really waiting for that check to go grocery shopping," says Reid, who tried working a second job until she fell asleep standing up and woke up flat on the floor...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Contract Negotiations Drag On, Harvard Union Members Say | 11/24/1992 | See Source »

...sometime in the past 12 months, a generation of women woke up to the possibility that what they had taken for granted could also be taken away. As the Supreme Court began to nibble at Roe v. Wade, "choice" took on the moral urgency that in another generation had been reserved for Vietnam. And then came "Hill-Thomas." The visual that lingers shows 14 white men confronting a species of human being that they would normally encounter only in the form of a hotel maid. Little clicks of raised consciousness could be heard throughout the land as women plotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Women Have to Celebrate? | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...inconvenience forced many residents to go without showers. Claverly resident Kiara Y. Ghartey '93 woke up only to find that neither the showers nor faucets worked--on the day of her senior portrait shoot...

Author: By Emily J. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Repairs Affect Water Supply | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

...would identify himself only as Howiesaid he was trying to fall asleep across thestreet from the building when the tumult woke himup...

Author: By David P. Bardeen, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: 10 Injured In Eatery Gas Leak | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...woke up this morning with the sniffles," says Edward F. Mulkerin III '96, clutching a tissue...

Author: By Daria E. Lidsky, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Chilly Fall Unleashes Sniffles | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

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