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...such superstitious thought, at least not in these crude terms. But it is hard to deny that New Yorkers have a fascination with the supernatural. How else can one explain the press' fixation on the coincidence that Ms. Steel visited the same bar as Ms. Levin. Perhaps that lurid den of iniquity was the root of the problem...

Author: By Joshua H. Henkin, | Title: Truth in Tragedy | 10/25/1986 | See Source »

...Bennett's speech is in the spirit ofcontroversial speeches at Harvard," Shattuck said."I salute him for as he would see it coming to thelions' den and provoking controversy," Shattucksaid, adding, "and he certainly will...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Bok, Others Criticize Secretary | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

...When Detroit police raided an East Side drug den last week, they came away with nine rocks of cocaine and one telephone beeper. In two earlier police raids the haul included 89 captured rocks of cocaine, eleven packs of heroin, a dinner plate used for dope cutting -- and three beepers. Such inventories highlight a trend that authorities are noticing around the country: the telephone beeper or pager, long used as a stay-in-touch device by doctors, plumbers and electricians, is now the gadget of choice for the dope industry as well. "Beepers," says Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Curtis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Smart: Drug dealers turn on to beepers | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

Strictly speaking, this circle should be named Canaday Hell, after the den of architectural perversity masquerading as a freshman dorm. It's a little known fact that the building of both Canaday and Mather House was secretly funded by Yale...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Guide to Freshman Hell | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Cardinals' rookie outfielder, Vince Coleman, a long and brilliant account of the managerial chess game played at the 1985 world series, and a mordant treatise on the beloved and blinkered manager Chuck Tanner, who somehow failed to notice that his Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse had turned into a drug den (beat reporters, please copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballpark Figures the Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract: Villard; 721 Pages | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

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