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Family names range from "The Spite Girls" to "Boogie Knights" and are variously armed and dangerous. The "Scrote & Dagger" team (S&D), intent on victory, recently purchased Motorola Talk-About Plus walkie-talkies, at $150 a pop, in order to properly stake out the Quincy gate and courtyard area...
...Loeb University Professor Walter Gilbert '53, left his post as a tenured professor in molecular and cellular biology and set out to stake a claim in the emerging frontier of commercial biotechnology...
...expect to see this plan adopted anywhere anytime soon. Too many people stake their meaning as persons on the right to admit or reject twentysomethings. But I can promise you this. If I ever have the good fortune of finding myself with the title "Internship Coordinator," it will be lottery time indeed...
...enough to argue about, a hot little debate has broken out over whether a visit by President Clinton in mid-May would help or hinder the referendum. Nationalists say it would help; Unionists say it would hinder. ?If they think I should go -- and they?ve got the biggest stake and the closest sense of the public -- I would be happy to do it,? Clinton said Monday. If all goes well, he?ll be dispensing up to $100 billion in investment goodies. No doubt Ulster will say yes to that...
...eyebrows and Khrushchev's vast baldness were utterly human manifestations. The unusual birthmark on the new General Secretary's forehead, combined with his inexplicably radical actions, gave him a mystical aura. Writing about Gorbachev--who he was, where he came from, what he was after, and what his personal stake was (there had to be one) became just as intriguing as trying to figure out what Russia's future would...