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Past Mather Lather dances have been plagued by abrupt Harvard University Police Department shut downs, reports of disappointingly sparse suds, and complaints about postering campaigns advertising “Pre-Frosh Girls Free,” but never by skin rashes...
...officials belatedly admitted that unnamed secret-service frogmen had carried out the attack, in which a photographer died, to keep the ship from protesting French nuclear tests on the Pacific atoll of Mururoa. The incident had badly shaken the administration of Socialist President Franois Mitterrand and forced the abrupt departures of two senior government officials. Last week's hearing was expected to reveal new details in the convoluted affair...
...dream came to an abrupt halt last week. Dunbar, 42, was sentenced to five years in prison for tax fraud, having understated his earnings by some $32 million over a three-year period. That makes Dunbar the biggest tax cheat in IRS history. Judge Marilyn Hall Patel also placed him on five years' probation after he finishes his sentence and ordered him to pay the IRS what he owes in back taxes--an estimated $10 million--plus interest...
Askar Akayev's abrupt departure took everyone by surprise-especially the people trying to oust him. Indeed, the President of Kyrgyzstan fled last Thursday before his opponents could even decide what to call the latest revolution to rock a former Soviet republic-pink? Lemon? Tulip? "We were expecting at least a couple of days of picketing," says Alexander Kim, editor of the main opposition newspaper, MSN. "No one thought [the government] would collapse in half...
After he cries about both his past tragedy and this new case that threatens disaster, Willis just barely regains composure long enough to override local authorities and take over command. While Willis has played this caring-but-tough roll before (The Fifth Element), the abrupt transitions between teary scenes and action thrills are unconvincing...