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...student representative said yesterday that more than four-fifths of the first-year class submitted examination books for a 90-minute midterm in Physiology which bore only numbers for identification...
...driver who drops Christian off at the pier to take a boat out of New York tells him there are only two kinds of people in the world: "Guys who'll stand around being nobody for an hour so they can be somebody for a minute and maybe bore ten years' patience out of a big shot's life who don't want to listen. But then you get the other kind. The Acquaintances. Who really want to let you know they're close friends by drinking all your drink and eating your food. So I ask sincerely, who needs...
Local politics bore you? Remember that spire Agnew began on a local school board in Maryland and that Watergate begin in small cities and towns across the nation. The "new political morality" that Agnew says defeated him, began in Cambridge in 1971 with the common Slate. It could...
...second version, in 1969, produced among other things, the definitive Philips recording by Conductor Colin Davis. Boston's indefatigable Sarah Caldwell staged it as two operas last year. But the Metropolitan Opera studiously avoided Les Troyens, largely because former General Manager Sir Rudolf Bing considered it a bore. Last week the big day-or rather the long night-finally arrived. The essentially uncut performance lasted just under five hours, including two 30-minute intermissions during which, precedent of precedents, ham sandwiches were sold (for $1.25) to the tired and hungry in the grand tier...
...that mutual funds are hemorrhaging cash and conglomerate has become a dirty word, the story of the 1960s on Wall Street has the faraway quality of tales from 1929. As New Yorker Writer John Brooks points out, the speculative excesses of the decade bore a haunting resemblance to those of the '20s, and they, too, led to a resounding market crash (in 1970) that wiped out fortunes and nearly destroyed Wall Street itself by threatening to bankrupt its biggest brokerage houses...