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Three years later, in 1979, the department celebrated its 10th birthday. But the celebration was not a merry one. Since 1971, the number of concentrators had dropped 76 percent, and the department had become the target of widespread student and junior faculty dissatisfaction...
Shapiro, the Latin Orator, will tell what he described as a "far-fetched story about the John Harvard statue coming to life for its 350th birthday and delivering an oration from the top of Widener about the right uses of a college education...
Tieuli said that Carroll went out of her way to be friendly and personal. "She talked to each person and signed special messages like Happy Birthday," he said...
...interlocutor fell upon him and announced his arrest. Thus did Inspector Madhukar Zende, an ace Bombay detective, seize Charles Sobhraj, the international criminal who three weeks earlier had escaped from New Delhi's maximum-security Tihar Central Jail by slipping his guards drugged candies during a mock birthday party...
...returning Sobhraj to justice last week, Zende, who had caught the suspected murderer in 1972, served a kind of poetic justice. The day Sobhraj was arrested was the fugitive's birthday...