Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goes, we have to beat Princeton," Harvard Co-Captain Kevin Jernigan, Kenton's younger brother, said. "On paper it looks good, because Princeton lost their top six to graduation. We didn't lose as many as they did, but we try to steer away from taking teams for granted. We have a good team and we have some good transfers, it should be a good year...
...comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking," as well as Balzac's "Behind every great fortune there is a crime" and Fred Allen's "A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on." There are quizzes: 1. Was Romeo a Capulet or a Montague? 2. Which Wright brother made the first flight at Kitty Hawk? 3. What word has six successive consonants? 4. How many countries does Brazil border?* And lists of products that need inventing, like a device that reminds the forgetful driver in the car ahead that he is still blinking for a turn. For lagniappe, Hodgepodge...
...German-Arab Friendship Society offices, which left nine people injured. The trial provided a bizarre sideshow. Screaming and gesturing wildly from behind a bulletproof screen, Hasi claimed that "voices, sounds and music" were being piped into his cell to make him confess. The frenzied defendant is the brother of Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian who was convicted in London last month of trying to blow up an El Al airliner, allegedly with Syrian help. After the conviction, Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Syria...
Further links between Hindawi and Hasi emerged last week. Hasi's written confession described how Hindawi had helped arrange the Friendship Society bombing in West Berlin. Hasi said his brother had flown with Salameh to Damascus last January to discuss the attack with Syrian military intelligence officials. Hindawi made the trip, Hasi's statement said, after failing to receive Libyan support for his operations. In East Berlin, Fayssal Sammak, Syria's Ambassador to East Germany, labeled the confession "lies, pure lies...
...idea of mask and game playing is very important here. We're talking about an almost Oriental kind of concept of face and honor," says John Edgar Wideman, author of Brothers and Keepers, a 1985 book about his relationship with his brother Robbie, who is serving a life sentence for murder. Says Wideman of life on the street: "There is an invisible value system in which people are quite literally willing to go to war because somebody looks at them cross-eyed. When you have that kind of tension, when you have those rules that are worth life and death...