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...hard to find cheap people at Harvard says Li. Our first trip to Beacon Hill was a bonding experience. Since then, these self-described queens of the penny have traveled throughout Boston looking for deals. Today we found a steel cauldron wok 30 inches wide at an industrial food supply store. Its really good for exercise, as a rocking chair, and when it snows itll be an awesome sled, states a proud Tanenhaus...

Author: By W. L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All the Pretty Condoms | 9/21/2001 | See Source »

...sheer vulgarity of certain "modern" females who wear their sexuality on their sleeve. It makes it difficult to be a serene, self-respecting American lady when so many of my countrywomen insist on dressing like women of the night. I'm not sure why they want to look cheap. DIANA COOPER Kentfield, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...quest for immortality, Rhodes just wants a fair shot. "Be aggressive," he advises opposing pitchers. "Try to get me out. But don't keep me from breaking the record a cheap way." For perspective, he adds: "Americans aren't going to stop pitching to Ichiro to keep him from breaking a record." Says Barry Bonds:"If there's not much time left, Rhodes can forget it. They're not going to pitch to him. I remember Tuffy, but I don't know much about him. I didn't know he was hitting a lot of home runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swinging for History | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...militias' reach extends beyond the camps. In Dili's giddy bustle, ragged storekeepers in plywood shanties offer cheap Indonesian cigarettes smuggled in from West Timor, often with militia help. Lieut. Peter Ireland, who commands a U.N. reconnaissance platoon, says his teams spy on border markets. In West Timor, pro-integrationists have interests in shops, gambling, construction, and mechanical repairs. Behind the imposing Atambua compound of former militia commander-in-chief Jo?o Tavares, cheering punters bet avidly on cockfights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Payback Time | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...either great claustrophobia or great praise, and the Canadian pavilion (George Bures Miller and Janet Cardiff), which took science fiction film making to the next level by using all five senses to play with the viewer’s sense of perception. The Polish pavilion (Leon Tarasewicz) won the cheap thrill award, by creating an easy optical illusion with their floor. (Ridges cut into the floor and painted orange on one side and blue on the other caused the floor to miraculously change colors depending on your position.) The Switzerland pavilion showed the work of Urs Luthi, Andy Guhl...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burning Up: Art Sizzles at the Biennale | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

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