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...ruined kidneys. "He owned amazing gardens," the historian Miriam Beard wrote of Beaujean, "but he was too fat to walk in them . . . He had countless splendid bedrooms and suffered from insomnia . . . a monstrous, bald, bloated old man in a bed sculptured and painted to resemble a gilded basket of roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Shoes of Imelda Marcos | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...same speech, Aquino referred to the Philippines as the "basket case of Southeast Asia," an unflattering but all-too-accurate reference to the economic wasteland she has inherited. The Philippines' foreign debt exceeds $27 billion. The annual interest payment alone--about $1.7 billion--amounts to a third of export earnings. In 1985 the growth rate plunged to negative 3.5%, while per capita income declined to about $600 a year, no higher in real terms than it was in 1972. Almost half of the nation's 21 million workers are unemployed at least part of the year. One of the priorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Now the Hard Part | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...basket by Bulldog center Chris Dudley then recaptured the lead for the visitors, until Phillips hit a bomb from the left corner to put the Crimson back...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Elis Inchworm by Men Cagers | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...drive to the basket, the pause...and the drop pass to teammate Todd Litfin...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Behind the Brouhaha at Barton | 2/25/1986 | See Source »

...fast-break basket by sophomore forward Sharon Hayes (12 points, five rebounds, two assists, two steals) a minute into the second half gave Harvard its first lead since the early going, 32-31. It was a lead the cagers would not surrender for the remainder of the contest...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Streaking Women Cagers Wallop Wildcats, 68-54; Crimson Rallies For First-Ever Victory Over UNH | 2/11/1986 | See Source »

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