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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police also said they arrested a Belmont man after he allegedly robbed a Harvard student at knife poi any ate Friday night outside UHS. The victim said he was on the ramp outside the building when Jeffrey Tholand, 18, allegedly approached him with a knife and said, "Up against the wall and give me that," referring to the student's wallet...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko, | Title: Two Students Assaulted On Cambridge Common | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

...London. Collins was in the British capital with other members of the National Governors' Association on the first leg of a ten-day European trip to study the effects of acid rain; her husband suggested that the glass she swallowed may have been in a meal she ate while aboard a Pan American World Airways jet en route to England. Pan Am said that it strongly doubted that this could have happened. She is in good condition but is expected to remain at the clinic for two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 3, 1984 | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

There was a time when a Navy man talked like a sailor. He cooked in the galley and ate on the mess deck. If he got out of line he was thrown into the brig. But in the 1970s the Navy adopted the language of landlubbers. The galley became a kitchen; the mess deck was termed the enlisted dining facility; the brig was transformed into a correctional facility. Even the snappy BOQ, Bachelor Officers' Quarters, gave way to unaccompanied officer personnel housing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Language: Salty Talk for the Navy | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...Brown '78) bases her insights on more than rumor; she visited every campus in the book. Ducking into bars, attending the odd class, she sought students, professors and administrators, and distributed nine-page questionnaires. "I stayed in dorms," she declares in the tone of a war correspondent. "I ate cafeteria food every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Life Before the Preppies | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...verbal undress, without their styles hitched up, and they traffic in anecdote and gossip. This is also the case in favor of such interviews. And why not? How else would a faithful reader learn- as he does in Writers at Work-that Elizabeth Bishop, while a student at Vassar, ate from a bedside pot of Roquefort cheese at night to stimulate dreams for her notebooks, and once spent a night in a tree outside her dormitory? Or know about Carson McCullers' visiting Elizabeth Bowen's ancestral estate in Ireland and coming down to dinner on the first night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Q. and A.: WRITERS AT WORK: THE PARIS REVIEW INTERVIEWS | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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