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They paid little heed to a score of boisterous protesters enacting an oddly surreal, '60s-style pageant outside the vast convention hall: long-haired, body-pierced youths waved hand-painted signs with such slogans as SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL and DON'T LET THEM NAB OUR AIRWAVES; a 30-ft. red, white and blue banner proclaimed MICROPOWER; and a red-bearded man in sandals and beret cried out, "Communication is your divine right whether you're a human being or a dog or a lizard! Bring back the village square! Let microtransmitters bloom in every town and city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio Free America | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...about because Harvard outplayed Stanford, plain and simple? Maybe, Harvard came out victorious because it had an All-American named Allison Feaster who managed to score 35 points, pull down 13 rebounds, nab a few steals and dazzle a national television audience. Feaster's performance even had Rebecca Lobo and the rest of the ESPN studio anchors wondering why she did not receive higher All-America honors...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Cinderella Run Gunned Down By Sharpshooting Arkansas | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

...diseases, bacteria, or germs." The criminal complaint that cited the prohibition also noted that Harris had told an unidentified group last summer that he planned to release bubonic-plague germs at a New York City subway station. Tabloids in Manhattan promptly blared headlines like SUBWAY PLAGUE TERROR and FEDS NAB 2 IN TOXIC TERROR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catching a 48-Hour Bug | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

Harvard did nab the next goal, but it didn't come until there was only 6:38 remaining in regulation. It was a second half which was witness to constant back-and-forth action and which came to no fruition until McLaughlin blasted home the go-ahead goal...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Lights Go Out on Men's Soccer's Mediocre Season | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

...brothers running contraband hat buckles evade the county sheriff on an extremely fast and maneuverable mule. The end of the show featured a simulated mule chase, ending when the sheriff's mule flips over and lands upside down in the bushes, causing him to say simulated curses like "dag-nab-bit" and "razza-frackin." The main difference from the modern-day version is that, instead of escaping at the end of the show, the Dukes were fatally afflicted by God using a large boulder (a difficult, but not impossible, special effect in 1632). It was a successful show at first...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Achy-Breaky Harvard | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

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