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...Capital. Capitol? Well, however you spell it it still means that great grey domed building at the top of the Isthmus, rising above the two lakes of Madison like a gibbous moon. Atop the dome is good old Lady liberty, cast in some goldish material, pointing a languid arm over yonder East--that is, towards us and the rest of the Atlantic Coast folk, governmental and non. So I hiked up the snowy blocks of State Street, my black chair under my arm, and into the capitol...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Cheesy Politics | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...injury his junior season with the Engineers ruled out all hope of continuing in hockey. He was playing in, of all places, the Yale Whale, when he took a fall that shattered his arm and dislocated his wrist. He had surgery in New Haven that night...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: More Than Just a Recruiting Wizard | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

First, though, was a senior year in Troy, N.Y., playing under first-year Coach Mike Addesa with a specially-made brace on his arm. Addesa was impressed enough with Tomassoni's performance to invite him to stay on as an assistant the following season...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: More Than Just a Recruiting Wizard | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...from the capital to a church meeting in Puerto Cabezas on the Atlantic Coast. Bishop Paul Schmitz, 46, an American wounded in the attack, . said a rocket-propelled grenade hit the hood of the white Toyota, and "everything just exploded." Automatic-rifle fire pierced the pickup, breaking Schmitz's arm. He and a fourth passenger, Nicaraguan Sister Francesca Colomer, 24, screamed that they were religious workers, and the gunfire stopped. But Schmitz never saw the assailants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua Dangerous Highways | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...excesses of his seven-year rule. But members of the opposition exploded in protest when Chun denied responsibility for the 1980 deaths of 200 demonstrators in Kwangju and argued that the army had rightfully fired on a crowd. One legislator dashed to the witness stand, grabbed Chun by the arm and shouted, "Murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Exercise in Exorcism | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

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