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...community isn't as easy to fix as a building. You can't just hire out a contractor and come back when the work is done. You have to lay down the scaffolding, strip the floors and dig the holes yourself. You have to really want those repairs...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Reconstructing Harvard | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...archaeologist, unearthing relics is as incidental as filing tax returns. But last week an excavation among the ancient ruins of Copan, in western Honduras, turned up a find so extraordinary that archaeologists are digging for the proper superlatives to describe it. The discoverers believe that they have uncovered the tomb of a 6th century Mayan king who died before he was 30 years old. Archaeologists stumbled across the temple during a routine dig, and are now calling it the find of their careers. Five hundred tombs have been excavated at Copan during the past 18 years, but only two others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fit for A King | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

...days, I'll bet the grass grew on its own. The Yardlings were all stately white guys who didn't play ultimate frisbee or football on the lawn. A bunch of Cliffies didn't dig up the middle of the Quad for a bonfire. And hundreds of tourists from Dubuque didn't kick up the sod chasing squirrels with bits of Au Bon Pain corn muffins...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Hope You Enjoy the Grass. I Paid for It. | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

THOMAS W. LUCE III, 51, HAS MADE A CAREER OF CALMING the waters that Perot has stirred up. The founder of a large Dallas law firm, Luce was hired by Perot in 1974 to help dig him out of a disastrous attempted bailout of the Wall Street brokerage house of DuPont Glore Forgan. In 1984 Luce helped Perot negotiate the sale of his EDS computer-services company to GM; two years later, Luce settled a bitter dispute over the buyout of Perot's GM shares. To the general public, however, the Dallas attorney is better known for having been Perot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perot's Lieutenants | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...essentially restrict capital felons to a single federal appeal. Kathleen Behan, his new attorney, has been relentless in developing the innocence argument. She has made more than a dozen trips to Grundy to uncover new evidence and enlist further support. A few months ago, she rented a backhoe to dig up the landfill where Keester Shortridge said he dumped the bloody sheets. For her effort, she was rewarded with a 1-ft. by 2- ft. swatch of the sheet. She has not only lobbied the press for coverage, but has waged a letter-writing campaign to Virginia lawyers, entreating them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roger Keith Coleman: Must This Man Die? | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

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