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Mendelsohn, interviewed moments after completing her first page, stressed the importance of the thesis advisor in the process. "A lot of my friends are getting tense now," she says, explaining, "if you find out that your advisor is no good, it really throws a wrench into the whole process...

Author: By Nina E. Sonenberg, | Title: Thesis Angst Begins its Grip on Seniors | 12/14/1985 | See Source »

...NCAA managed to toss a wrench into the icemen's campaign as well, disallowing. Allan Bourbeau from returning to competition after two semesters off. A victim of an "academic progress" rule. Bourbeau met Harvard's stringent criteria for returning to the ice, but failed to equal the more arbitrary guidelines of the NCAA...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Color the Ivy League Crimson | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

Colonel Mustard in the library with the wrench. As any child detective can attest, guessing the murderer, the place of death and the fatal weapon makes Clue a humdinger of a whodunit and a longtime Parker Brothers' best-selling board game. Never known to let a best seller get away, Hollywood has just begun filming a movie based on the game. The first clues fans will want, of course, are who plays the familiar players: Lesley Ann Warren (Miss Scarlett), Martin Mull (Colonel Mustard), Madeline Kahn (Mrs. White), Michael McKean (Mr. Green), Christopher Lloyd (Professor Plum) and Eileen Brennan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 3, 1985 | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...demonstration threw a small wrench in some of the illusions students possess, that somehow "their University" crisis in a vacuum, outside the social realities of decaying capitalist society. What we must realize is that ins this University is part and parcel of the whole racist system...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Anti-Apartheid Victory | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was deep into a lengthy report before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the new Pentagon budget. He had just pointed out that the Department of Defense was the first to uncover such military expenditures as a $400 claw hammer and a $9,000 wrench when Maine's Republican Senator William Cohen said, "I'm fascinated to hear all this, but I'm told there's now a problem with a $600 toilet seat." This, Cohen deadpanned, "gives new meaning to the word throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adjusting the Bottom Line | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

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