Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some unfamiliar experiences. When Leo stays ! over, casual nudity becomes the order of the night. On one occasion, the child comes to their bed while they are making love. On another, when Anna is away at work, Molly watches Leo take a shower; what follows is either a brief, innocent mistake or an instance of child molesting, depending on who makes the judgment. Molly's father, hearing his little daughter talk of this event, goes understandably bananas and instigates legal proceedings to wrest custody of the child from her mother...
...round- the-clock meetings to begin preparing for the annual party convention in the fall. Takeshita, along with Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, 62, and L.D.P. Executive Board Chairman Kiichi Miyazawa, 66 -- both prominent leaders of rival L.D.P. factions -- said that they would go along in principle with a brief extension of Nakasone's reign as party president, but objected to giving him a full, two-year third term. Confronted by the Prime Minister's impressive mandate at the polls, however, they may waver. Nakasone is a talented coalition builder, and he now has the undivided support of Japan's Western...
...whose famous anthologies have recently been diversifying from poetry into such novelties as The Oxford Book of Dreams and The Oxford Book of Death (not to mention The Oxford Book of Legal Anecdotes and The Oxford Book of New Zealand Plants), has now had the intriguing idea of compiling brief biographies of all 263 Popes (plus 39 antipopes) from St. Peter to John Paul II. It entrusted this enormous task to J.N.D. Kelly, an Anglican priest who has served as principal at Oxford's St. Edmund Hall and as canon of Chichester Cathedral, as well as chairman of the Archbishop...
...Broyhill, a 23-year House veteran, had just won a bitter primary campaign for the Senate nomination against former U.S. Ambassador to Rumania David Funderburk, a candidate of the ultra-right-wing National Congressional Club, which had previously backed East. North Carolina Republicans hope that Broyhill's incumbency, however brief, will boost him in his uphill campaign against the Democratic nominee, popular former Governor Terry Sanford, who retired in 1985 after 15 years as president of Duke University...
...three undergraduates, all of whom are Summer School proctors, told the hopeful pre-freshmen of the reasons that they decided to apply and attend Harvard and then gave a brief anecdotal description of their years here, sprinkled with some advice. "If you are homesick [when you first come here], keep really busy," advised Meena Manshalaman...