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...mark of ATF's curious culture, however, that even the most critical agents often proclaim a deep respect for the agency and its mission. "I love this agency," Stewart says. "I love this agency so much I would work for it 24 hours a day if they'd let me." Vanessa McLemore, another class-action plaintiff, says she wanted to become an ATF agent since high school. "Deep down I'm happy. I would not go to another agency. I love what I'm supposed to do. What I don't like is not being given an equal opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATF UNDER SIEGE | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...left for Paris the next year. Thus, although he liked to posture as a dashing Tidewater cavalier, Whistler never became an officer, let alone saw action in the Civil War. This insufficiency troubled him and accounts for a curious adventure he undertook in 1866, when he sailed from France to Chile--a long and grueling trip across the Atlantic and around the Horn--to be present at a Spanish naval blockade of the port of Valparaiso. By the end of the year he was back in Paris, with a few crepuscular seascapes but no honorable scars to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: WHISTLER UNVEILED | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

Conway's wife Jill, who was president of SmithCollege and is presently a visiting professor ofscience, technology and society at MIT, said herhusband was an avid gardener and had a passion formusic, ballet, outdoor hikes, animals and "anybodywho was generally curious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Leverett House Master Dies | 7/14/1995 | See Source »

...ever curious about gaining a different perspective on your experience during your first year at Harvard, take a break from your hectic schedule--you can always make time--and go for a walk up to 29 Garden...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: How to Enrich Your Harvard Experience by Going for a Walk | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...world. Parents should control, limit and regulate television exactly as much as they control, limit and regulate other things the child does-like taking lessons, like eating, like being outside." Indeed, too many parents are like the Man in the Yellow Hat in Margret and Hans Rey's Curious George books -- we send our young charges off to the television set with only the admonition, "Don't get into trouble." And, of course, they find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: GLUED TO THE TUBE | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

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