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Directed by Gregory La Cava RKO Radio Pictures Inc. “We started off on the wrong foot. Let’s stay that way.” Who hasn’t wanted to whip out a line that sharp? But most of us don’t have that kind of quick wit. It’s mostly confined to the hilarious comedies of the 1930s, particularly “Stage Door,” the timeless story of a boardinghouse full of young actresses trying to make it on Broadway. If modern heroines were witty enough...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Classics: Stage Door (1937) | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

...southern town of Lauro di Nola, exchanging gunfire and terrifying passers by. When the cars stopped, members of two organized-crime families jumped out and started a gunfight that left three dead and five injured. What was really remarkable was that all the shooters were women, members of the Cava and Graziano families that have spent 30 years battling for control of local extortion and drug trafficking rackets. ALGERIA Tainted Victory The campaign to elect Algeria's new lower house of parliament was marred at one extreme by a boycott and at the other by lethal violence. The National Liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 6/2/2002 | See Source »

...families of the Camorra crime syndicate led to an explosion of female violence that was unprecedented for the Italian Mob. After exchanging slaps and threats at the local Lauro di Nola beauty parlor last Sunday, several female relatives from the Graziano family cornered a carload of women from the Cava clan and opened fire with automatic weapons. Three of the Cava women were killed and two were seriously wounded. After toasting their success with male relatives, the Graziano women were taken into custody by local police whose wiretaps had captured many details of the episode. Beyond such senseless bloodletting, more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet The Modern Mob | 6/2/2002 | See Source »

...needed something like this to get us off the ground," says Sandra Cava's' 92 former co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA). "It was really good for the community to mobilize...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Peninsula Issue Sparks Campus Controversy | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

Using special equipment flown in from the U.S., the doctors injected GM-CSF into each patient's vena cava, the central vein that leads to the heart. Within 48 to 72 hours, the white blood cell count increased in five of the six patients, but Leide died before the treatment could be evaluated. Within a week four of the six patients had died, overwhelmed by pneumonia, blood poisoning and hemorrhaging. But the other two seem to be recovering. "I can't be certain that they would have died if they had not got the treatment," Gale says. "But they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Battle Against Deadly Dust | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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