Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the taxi horns. Yet the park needs the city, too, the way everyone needs strife to feel alive. When Christmas is celebrated here, life is celebrated, the life of a civilization huddled against itself. Nothing is really special about the people of Gramercy Park, other than that they chose Gramercy Park to li live in, choosing one another's company as much as the old trees and pretty houses. Like most people, they behave better than people are generally reputed to behave, proclaiming their value, as O. Henry said of the watch fob in The Gift...
...sphinxlike," says Knesset Member Amnon Rubinstein. That befits a man who was a leader of the terrorist underground before Israel's independence and a covert agent and high official of Israel's intelligence agency, MOSSAD. (Even his surname had been a deception; born Jazernicki, he chose the new identity after escaping from a British prison in 1943.) When it comes to Israel's basic security interests, those few who do know Shamir expect him to be at least as tough as Begin...
Often, news executives who might otherwise be restrained rush the news into print to avoid being scooped. The Oakland Tribune, however, chose to run that risk when it learned that Mass Murderer Juan Corona had wanted to enter a guilty plea at his long and costly ($5 million) retrial, but was dissuaded by his attorneys. Editor Maynard kept the story secret until the trial was complete. He explained: "There was no doubt in my mind that if we had printed the story, it would have caused a mistrial, which could have forced yet another trial and the expenditure of still...
...North Providence, R.I., had been killed. First shown on the CBS Morning News, the sequence was replayed that evening on, among others, the CBS-owned station in Chicago. As the tape finished, Anchor Jacobson apologized: "I am sorry, that film should not have been shown. It was inappropriate." NBC chose not to air similar footage its crew shot at a Marine's home in California. Said Anchor Tom Brokaw: "We looked at it and said, 'That is a blatant intrusion,' and we did not put it on." Nevertheless, the footage had been shot. Indeed, nearly every local...
When Conant, a chemist, was named president, one member of the University community reportedly approached him and said, "Mr. Conant, I'm so disappointed--I thought Harvard chose scholars for its president...