Word: carli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protagonist in a Nabokov novel. Contradictions little and large adorn his life. He owns two racehorses but never bets on them because he doesn't gamble. Last year when his aged Audi expired, he agonized for weeks before acquiring a new Mercedes- Benz. The symbolism of so expensive a car bothers this man of independent means who cuts his own hair (badly) because "it's cheaper and faster." With a reporter he knows well, he can be drawn into conversation about his innermost thoughts. Still, he refuses to confess ownership of the Mercedes...
...guzzlers would pay more than others for insurance, which would encourage the purchase of efficient cars. But if that's deemed unfair to big-car drivers, evenhandedness could be restored through a small adjustment in the automobile-registration...
...Mandela football team and youth groups from Soweto schools have been fighting hit-and-run battles for more than two years, and residents of the neighborhood have accused team members of everything from rape to car theft. In late December the gang abducted four young men from a Methodist Church refuge, took them to Mandela's house and beat them repeatedly. One of the youngsters escaped; the team released two others after 2 1/2 weeks; and the body of the fourth, a 14-year-old named Stompie Mokhetsi, was located last week in a mortuary where it had lain unidentified...
Last week a group of women started a new program to provide walking escorts to students, staff and faculty members who are out late at night. The program is intended to supplement the University's one-car escort service that shuts down at 3 a.m. These students should not have to provide a service which Harvard has an obligation to give to its community...
...squash as the Cadillac is to the car world," sophomore George Polsky says. "He's got that sleek, lanky frame and he moves just so smoothly out there. He's not all that flashy, but he'll get the job down. In a Churchellian sense of the word, he's a classy dude...