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...Crimson crushed Kleinfelder's alma mater, West Chester. Goalie Kelly Dermody played well and looked strong throughout the weekend...
Whatever his business faults, Mulheren's personal life was in most ways exemplary before his arrest. He was close to his wife Nancy and their five adopted children, and donated at least $2.5 million to Roanoke College, his alma mater. Above all, he was loyal to family and friends, including Boesky. Mulheren gave generously to Boesky's favorite charities and helped bail out the speculator when he ran into financial trouble in 1982. Mulheren may have been feeling totally betrayed when he apparently gave in to rage and desperation...
...upheaval in the south was the latest sign of unrest among the Soviet Union's more than 100 national ethnic groups. In December 1986 thousands of demonstrators rioted in Alma-Ata, capital of Kazakhstan, to protest the appointment of an ethnic Russian as the regional Communist Party head. Last July a group of Crimean Tatars protested in Moscow's Red Square, demanding the right to return to their hereditary homeland in the Crimea. In the Estonian capital of Tallinn last week, a march celebrating the 70th anniversary of Estonia's short-lived independence drew 20,000 people into the streets...
...make both the harpsichord and its repertoire more accessible to skeptical audiences. He has already visited dozens of American universities in his quest to bring classical music to a young audience or, as he puts it, to "bring the mountain to Mohammed." This week finds him here at his alma mater for a series of student-oriented musical events, as part of the Office for the Arts' Learning from Performers program...
Across town, ten days later, Alma Lee Washington was sitting in her wheelchair in the doorway of her rundown two-bedroom house in South Central Los Angeles when hoodlums driving by opened fire with a .45-cal. handgun. Washington, 67, was killed by a bullet that struck her in the right eye. Yet her slaying got scant attention. Footage of the grieving family was not the top story on the evening news. The Los Angeles Herald Examiner buried her death in a small note. The Los Angeles Times, which had been splashing the Westwood shoot-out across...