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...been. I broke into tears while packing in the spring over a bottle I had found at the bottom of Walden Pond. It marked the first time I went skinny-dipping there. My friends declared, "There was a reason it was on the bottom of Walden Pond, it's worthless!"). It took me two weeks to tell my mom about the bag. She took it pretty well, I'd say. To this day I honestly have no idea where it is. Perhaps the tenant accidently packed it away with her stuff and hasn't found...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Crimed Tries to Master the Art of Losing | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

...only a page and a quarter of a lengthy indictment that listed 12 other women whom Bailey allegedly defrauded of half a million dollars over the past 20 years. According to a lawyer for the Brach estate, the widow was seduced into spending at least $300,000 for "virtually worthless" race and show horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All The Pretty Horses | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...other side of town, where windows were broken before they were told to try their luck at the company headquarters instead. On Saturday that market evaporated when the company folded up shop, and shares that had dropped from a high of $62 to 50 cents last week were worthless. A regularly scheduled meeting of the Cabinet was devoted almost entirely to the most dramatic financial scandal since the fall of communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poof Go the Profits | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...majority rights. Too bad Michael Fay has become a fulcrum for this discussion. Not only does he seem destined to be pummeled and immobilized by an instrument of ordeal, but the use of Singapore as a standard for judging any other society, let alone the cacophonous U.S., is fairly worthless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whipping Boy | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...haven't read any Foucault or you think he's worthless...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: A Taxonomy of Harvard | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

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