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...trombone, instrument of military marches and patriotic small town parades, seems like an odd companion for a Cambridge summer night...
JOHANNESBURG: Graca Machel may become a first lady for a second time -- and of a second country -- on Saturday. South Africa's media is awash with reports that President Nelson Mandela plans to celebrate his 80th birthday by marrying Machel, 52, his companion of two years. "Mandela is staying coy and there's no certainty, but the signs are that there may be a small wedding at his home on Saturday," says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. Machel is the widow of Samora Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique, who died in a plane crash in 1987. South...
...June 7, CNN broadcast a story on NewsStand: CNN & TIME alleging that sarin nerve gas was used by U.S. forces in a secret operation in Laos, known as Tailwind, and that U.S. defectors were intentionally killed. TIME ran a companion story that week, "Did the U.S. Drop Nerve Gas?," written by the CNN journalists. After these stories provoked strong denials, CNN launched an investigation, overseen by the eminent attorney Floyd Abrams, and we promised that we would examine the issue and report back...
...June 7 CNN story that aired on NewsStand: CNN and TIME, and a companion piece in TIME written by the CNN journalists, which alleged the U.S. military used Sarin nerve gas and killed American defectors in Laos during the Vietnam War, was in error...
Some equally uninspiring characters aid Nikki on her quest to solve the murder, including an actress from the American Repertoire Theater, a 20 year old law student, Nikki's landlady (a former English professor denied tenure) and a Harvard University Police Department detective from the Caribbean. These companion figures are set in opposition to those who fall in the suspect category. The companions take a less-than-active role in providing Nikki with different types of sage advice, while the suspects do their very best to impede her investigation. The result is nothing less than formulaic. Scenes in which Professor...