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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly the word "phantom" became a verb. As the year went on and the academic load grew, Mike phantomed more and more frequently. After the night Mike and Ben, the nut from Santa Monica across the hall, decided they were going to run around the Yard dressed only in shaving cream and shorts, we initiated a Phantom Watch. People would call on Friday nights: "Is he doing it? Can we come over...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Learning to Deal With a Planned Marriage | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...have some great memories of my first year:our wine cooler' and cheez whiz party whichevolved into a pineapple fight that nearlydestroyed our room; Duke singing "Hey Jude" infalsetto in time with his walkman, unaware thatothers could hear him; the Mets winning the WorldSeries over the Red Sox; Ben participating in hisfirst-ever snowball fight...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Learning to Deal With a Planned Marriage | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...career was long. Not many Englishmen of his day lived to push 80. Born in 1573, he grew up in Elizabethan England, collaborated on masques with Ben Jonson and probably knew Shakespeare. He lived on into the time of Cromwell and died in 1652. He cannot have been wholly sorry to leave a world that had killed his King and friend, Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Brio of a Great All-Rounder | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

MURDERERS AMONG US: THE SIMON WIESENTHAL STORY (HBO, April 23, 8 p.m. EDT). The famed Nazi hunter is portrayed by Ben Kingsley in a properly reverent TV- movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 24, 1989 | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...sure whether what ((North)) said was true, fantasy, or was being told deliberately to mislead." And North's ability to win over an audience will face its roughest test this week, when prosecutor John Keker gets his turn to ask the questions. "North makes an excellent witness," said Richard Ben-Veniste, a former Watergate prosecutor. "The question is the cross-examination, which will provide by far the greatest dramatic element of the trial. The trial may well hinge on the cross- examination of Ollie North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pawn Among Giants | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

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