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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weren't your typical American family," Celia says, and her brother adds, "My parents fostered a little bit of a view of us as outsiders. They are very happy, but they never completely adapted." It wasn't simply that the Byrnes had teatime in the afternoons -- a habit in which David still indulges -- or that Tom Byrne seemed to others to be just the kind of mildly eccentric technowhiz who really could, as family legend insists, have once fixed a submarine with a coat hanger. The Byrnes were politically active and socially liberal; Emma Byrne is a Quaker. Folk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Renaissance Man | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...Scotland Yard colleagues track the killer through the corridors of Whitehall, the hospital of a fashionable abortionist, a painfully trendy suburban restaurant. Among the suspects: the dead politician's vapid second wife, pregnant with his child even though she has had a lover for years; her con-man brother, who has moved into the politician's room; the victim's conniving mother, who mourns the loss of prewar manners more than the loss of her son. The politician himself is a mystery. Why, Dalgliesh wonders, did he suddenly resign his government post, experience a religious conversion during which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crime's Le Carre: A Taste for Death | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

David is currently a junior, and a defensive back on the varsity football team. "Having my brother here is the biggest help," Forman says. "It's nice to know that he is here if I need...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Sophomore Sets the Stage for the Spikers | 10/23/1986 | See Source »

...didn't attend Harvard for volleyball," the Kirkland resident adds. "My brother was here and I wanted to attend an East Coast school--so it was an opportunity I couldn't pass...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Sophomore Sets the Stage for the Spikers | 10/23/1986 | See Source »

...Blodgett against Notre Dame. The Crimson lost 11-10 to the Fighting Irish last year....Elizondo pulled a groin muscle in the first game on Friday night and had to sit out the next three contests. He hopes to be back in action tomorrow so he can face his brother, who is a freshman on the N.D. squad....The Harvard "B" team played for most of the B.C. game...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Aquadudes Struggle | 10/20/1986 | See Source »

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