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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When the hangings were over, someone in the crowd released a dog wearing a colonel's uniform with quotations from the "Green Book" of Gaddafi's wisdom pinned to the sleeves. Police reportedly chased the dog around the campus and, failing to catch it, shot the animal dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Havoc at Home, Too, for Gaddafi | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...launches. As a result, extensive media coverage of executions has all but ceased, civil libertarians find themselves saddled with too many causes to fight effectively, and "law-and-order" fans have virtually no more tiresome judicial appeals about which to complain. The death penalty as an issue is virtually dead. Fortunately, some conscientious public officials have come up with a proposal that could rekindle the excitement: televising executions...

Author: By Michael N. Gooen, | Title: Barbarism at Its Best | 5/10/1984 | See Source »

Harvard senior Co-captain Kimbro Stephens thinks next year will be a good one for the tracksters. "This year has been an off year, but I think secretly that next season we'll win. But then again, those things usually come back to haunt you." He is dead right...

Author: By Johan Ahr, | Title: High Expectations | 5/10/1984 | See Source »

...last year with a three-point victory. The prospects were quite different this time as the Crimson was crippled by injuries. Says senior Co-Captain Brad Bunney, "Considering the number of injuries that plagued the squad after spring break. I think we ended with a respectable record." Bunney is dead right too. Steve Ezeji-Okoye was out. That meant that Harvard's one-two punch in the hurdling events was no longer a KO. With this in mind, the Crimson's loss against the Huntington Ave Hounds came as no surprise...

Author: By Johan Ahr, | Title: High Expectations | 5/10/1984 | See Source »

...lure him out into the woods and beat him up as revenge for double-dealing in a joint film project. Allen, a friend from youth, makes a homosexual pass and later tries to borrow $5,000. Even Lazar's rich Uncle Irving seems less interested in mourning his dead sister than haggling over the cost of her funeral: "This can't be the price . . . The cemetery isn't that far. If she was alive we could all walk there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hustler | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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