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...says, "no one has heard it since 'the bust.'" (The "bust" refers to the recapture of the building after the student takeover during Vietnam protests in 1969. To get in, the police had to break down the doors.) Young says that "since then, either the ghosts have been so distraught at the police breaking up the party or the breaking of the doors ruined something in the acoustics of the place, but no one's heard anything...

Author: By Drake P. Bennett, | Title: Twilight Zone: The College Years | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

Chiyo's career as Sayuri begins when her elderly father, distraught over his ailing wife, permits her to be placed in okiya, or training houses for geisha, at the urging of a rather dubious local entrepreneur...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Making of a Geisha and Life in an Okiya | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...nothing compels my team to do the test. We have to be ethically responsible." One turned away: an unemployed woman, newly relocated to Baltimore, who had a history of self-destructive behavior, eating disorders and possible alcohol abuse. Told that her testing would be postponed, she became so distraught that Brandt feared she would smash a glass table in his office. A year later, after settling into a home and a job, she was accepted for testing. When the news was bad, says Brandt, "she took it very well and thanked us for making her wait. She said, 'I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEEING THE FUTURE | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...high-ups weren't the only ones to lose their stomach for a fight. William Weld got a severe case of inner-Beltway butterflies, causing him to throw in the towel against Jesse Helms. The President himself got an attack of parental nerves as Chelsea left for Stanford; so distraught was her dad that he had to lean on something extremely soft ? like the tobacco settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Weekend Review | 9/20/1997 | See Source »

...brother is dead. They called me and told me he is in a hotel room near La Guardia Airport. I don't know what to do." The distraught woman on the other end of the phone line pleaded with Orlando Tobon, or "Don Orlando" as he is known in the tight-knit neighborhood of Colombian immigrants in the Jackson Heights district of New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DON ORLANDO: UNDERTAKER FOR THE MULES | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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