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Half an hour later Auque and Marchand were approached by gunmen. One grabbed Auque, struck him on the head with a pistol butt and forced him into a waiting car. Marchand escaped from a terrorist who jammed a Kalashnikov automatic rifle into his stomach and shouted, "I want to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: Another Day, A New Hostage | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...hiss every time a professor says "Yale" in class? Hiding behind The Joke's inherent anonymity, hundreds. of Harvard undergraduates daily undergo a dreaded ritual of emitting the grating sound of a tire being punctured by a rusty nail. Don't look so innocent you whey-faced, chicken-butt cowards. Yea, I know it's not you--its the next guy. Always the next guy. Well listen up, spineless--it's a community problem now, a problem we are going to have to face and deal with together...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Stop, Before It's Too Late | 12/15/1986 | See Source »

...after the Harvard cagers got over their initial dejection, they had a lot to be happy about, too. Crimson Coach Pete Roby went in turn to each player who was still lying prone, picked him up, and slapped him on the butt. "Chin up, guys," he seemed to be saying, "you lost the battle but together we're all going to win this...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Arriving at Last | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...that they blew off all day, work that they aren't doing, work that they should be doing because if they don't do it now they surely will fail everything and not get into graduate school and have a horrible poverty-striken life with a pain-in-the-butt spouse and lots of ugly slimy kids whose faces will melt...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Who Cares? | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...still abound. Did a courthouse in Charleston, S.C., inspire George Washington and lead to the White House design? Seale thinks so, but there is no exact record. One mystery was solved: the reason for a lonely stone fountain on White House ground commemorating Artist Francis Millet and Archibald Willingham Butt. Since the only other such commemoration on the grounds is the statue of Andrew Jackson, the fountain bore investigating. Archie Butt, it turns out, was a popular bachelor who served as White House military aide for both Theodore Roosevelt and Taft. Returning from a vacation in Europe with his friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Republic's Palace | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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