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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Downstairs is a reasonably thorough selection of half-price used paperbacks--again, anchored by impressive political science and sociology sections. But don't count on Harvard Bookstore to supply used texts--chances are they won't have all the books you need for your courses...
...Miro sculpture towers over Barcelona's Parc de l'Escorxador, its riotous colors glinting in the sun. Around it, grandmothers in sneakers, stocky shopkeepers and children in starched frocks join hands. A brass band brays for a slow-motion minuet. Toes out! Toes in! Deliberately, then merrily, 500 people count steps. The sardanas are courtly affairs, far removed from the stomping passion of Spanish flamenco. Under the Franco dictatorship, the dances were banned as subversive evidence of Catalan nationalism. But now, on Sunday afternoons, they are as ubiquitous as barbershop quartets at Iowa county fairs. "They're a sign...
...going to law school Needless to say, I'm also unemployed. But I count myself among the blessed...
...know, I'm making my parents proud by being at Harvard. I'm having some fun. And I might actually be learning something. But if listing Harvard as my education can't even get me an interview at the Resorts International coffee shop, how can I count on riding on the University's reputation for the rest of my life...
...cronies that were stocked with some $28 million worth of paraphernalia, much of it hauled there from Seattle and Los Angeles. The stash was so vast -- 107 million vials, 1.9 million crack pipes, 178 million polyethylene bags for heroin -- that 25 Customs agents took three days just to count and load the items into eleven 50-ft.-long tractor trailers. "That was more paraphernalia than we'd ever even conceived of running into," says Richard Mercier, chief of the New York Customs office. "Previous seizures had been only 10 million to 15 million vials...