Word: boye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dangerous thing. Ask Todd Patterson. He had just finished the sixth grade in Franklin Lakes, N.J., when he began compiling his own encyclopedia of all the nations of the world. He wrote to embassies -- including the Soviet Union's -- for information. Enter the FBI, which began investigating the boy and kept at it until it had built up a 17-page file. Now an 18-year-old high school senior, Patterson brought suit in May against the FBI to get access to the files. Last week a federal judge threw out the suit. After reviewing FBI documents that Patterson...
...Steinberg is in protective custody in a New York City jail while awaiting sentencing. He faces multi-million-dollar lawsuits brought separately by Nussbaum and by the natural mothers of Lisa and another child he illegally adopted, a boy named Travis, now 2 1/2. Nussbaum remains at a psychiatric facility in Katonah, N.Y., where she has been since last March. Lisa is buried in Hawthorne, N.Y., under a gravestone that reads GOD'S ANGEL...
...THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press; $18.95). This memoir by a highly praised author in his early 40s evokes the bizarre details of his upbringing, dwelling not on hardships but on the promise of awakening every morning in a vast land where people are prepared to forget the past and believe anything...
...AGAIN (PBS, Feb. 8, 9 p.m. on most stations). A boy and girl cope with some aggressive parental matchmaking in this American Playhouse comedy, scripted by Broadway newcomer (Eastern Standard) Richard Greenberg...
...That's what leaders are for, to take the heat," drawled House Speaker Jim Wright, sporting his trademark country-boy grin. It has seldom been hotter than it has been since plans for a 51% pay hike for top Government officials, including members of Congress, touched off a political fire storm...