Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four years, the Harvard women's soccer team has been supported by one of the best goalkeepers in America. After stopping more shots than a bullet-proof vest, two-time All-America Tracee Whitley is graduating with a net full of Harvard records...
Music provides Tarver with a way to express these contradictory backgrounds. Tarver describes Bullet LaVolta's music as somewhere between rock and punk, but "not hardcore"--somewhere between Boston underground music and the traditional rock music he listened to in high school. The five-person band avoids the standard Harvard band track of covers, playing only original compositions. Bullet LaVolta consists of a mix of Harvard students and local musicians. They may not make as much money as other Harvard bands, Tarver says, but they have developed their own style and gained a respected position in the Boston music world...
Assad, who has been trying to shed Syria's image as a sponsor of terrorism, is concerned for the safety of the 16 American and other foreign hostages thought to be held by Hizballah or other militants. Because many of the captives are believed to be held in bullet-scarred buildings in the southern suburbs, any precipitous Syrian military action there could endanger them. Some Western diplomats held out hope that the growing Syrian pressure on Hizballah could provide a new opportunity for the release of some hostages. Exploring that chance, Lieut. General Vernon Walters, U.S. Ambassador to the United...
...Scheim asserts, was Lee Harvey Oswald, whose uncle was a member of La Cosa Nostra. Oswald, shooting from a book depository building, would take the fall for Kennedy's death. But, following an old theory, Scheim writes that the angle at which the bullet hit Kennedy indicates that it came from behind a stockade fence on Kennedy's right slightly ahead of his limousine--meaning that Oswald was not responsible for the deadly shot...
...First Lady dabbled in astrology as far back as 1967. In 1981 Quigley made Nancy a believer by showing how the astrologer's charts could have foretold that the period on or around March 30, 1981, would be extremely dangerous for the President. On that day a bullet from John Hinckley Jr.'s handgun gravely wounded the President. From then on, Nancy, obsessed with her husband's safety, was convinced of her Friend's power to protect him. And from then on, no presidential public appearance was slated without the Friend...