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...lets his interrogators know, early on, that he wants to do it his own way: "((Retrospect editors: Don't chop up my paragraphs into mechanical 10-line lengths. I am taking your symposium seriously, and some thoughts will run long as rivers in thaw, and others will snap off like icicles. Let me do the snapping, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gerald Ford Redux | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...said that barricading the doors was actually an effort to reduce drafts." When the doors in question are opened, the accompanying gust of wind makes people at nearby tables shiver. In winter our superintendent posts a sign stating that the doors are not to be used. The recent cold snap was unusually early, and the sign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only Half the Story | 10/28/1992 | See Source »

After working on the new translation since 1982, the liturgical commission sent bishops a 154-page booklet of proposals last April, asking them to % respond by June 1. Mahony missed that snap deadline, but in July he sent eight pages of complaints to Archbishop Pilarczyk. Mahony dispatched copies of his broadside to Vatican officials and several dozen like-minded bishops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Somewhat Less Fatherly God | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...dark green stain remains on the skin for up to seven days, making the attacker easy for police to identify, said the distributor, Ellia Y. Kassoff, who hopes Boston-area college students will snap up the new product...

Author: By Jessica C. Schell, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Green Foam Rolls Into City | 10/17/1992 | See Source »

BASEBALL STORIES IN SEPTEMBER should be about matters that matter. Pennant races! Like, is this the year Montreal and Toronto finally subject us to an all-Canadian World Series? And, will the Cincinnati Reds snap out of their current swoon in time to give the Atlanta Braves a run for Ted Turner's money? Oh, and how come the Oakland A's, riven with disabled players, traded stud slugger Jose Canseco to the Texas Rangers for a guy with chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fay Vincent Gets Beaned | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

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