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...Kidnappers in Italy chop off the right ear of E. Paul Getty Jr., grandson of the world's richest man, when their ransom demands are not met in a timely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 14, 1997 | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...injured 500 others. His extradition today to the U.S. ends a messy diplomatic problem for Canadian authorities who had feared embarrassment at home if Sayegh had been returned to Saudi Arabia, where he likely would have been executed in an area next to a Riyadh mosque unofficially known as "chop-chop square." --Mark Coatney

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Break in the Saudi Bomb Case? | 6/17/1997 | See Source »

...would be carried out as part of a "holy war" against the federal government and therefore could not be considered as murder. The FBI documents also state that a militiaman associated with the West Virginia group suggested that members target the Rockefeller and Greenspan families as well. "You must chop off their heads," Larry Matz, an Ohio resident not charged in the bombing plot, allegedly said. Throughout his 31-year political career in West Virginia, Rockefeller, a descendant of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, has labored against an image as an Eastern establishment, big-money insider ? a perception that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Cross Hairs | 6/13/1997 | See Source »

Just when you thought American chop suey was a permanent fixture in your diet, there may be hope. Last week the University named Ted A. Mayer director of Harvard Dining Services (HDS), and we are optimistic that he is up to the challenge...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: New HDS Director Will Improve Food | 4/22/1997 | See Source »

...convinced in his eye and his mind--it is essential." As to Arnault the businessman, Lacroix echoes the common opinion: "He loves the new, he loves to astonish and to be first with something. If it means clearing the land to make a new garden, then he'll chop away. And he loves a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: THE POPE OF FASHION | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

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