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"We want to project a positive image," Geoffrey P. Bernstein '80, one of the group's organizers, said yesterday. "We stand for safe, clean, renewable energy like solar and wind power and a diversion of military funds toward meeting social needs."
Tim Fitzhigh, played by John Hall, is the first roomie we meet, a promising, diligent and directed "young man" from South Boston who plans to go to law school. Unlike the other members of his family--his rebel sister is a Moonie, but the rest, devoutly Catholic and provincial, remain...
But it was. Forty minutes before the terrorists' final deadline, the G.S.G. 9 rescue operation began. While two of the terrorists were in the cockpit talking with the German diplomat in the control tower, 28 commandos-their faces blackened and bodies camouflaged-stealthily approached the hijacked plane. Suddenly, there...
If it's Wednesday, this must be Living, the Times's once-weekly, 20-odd-page insert packed with ads and enthusiastic articles on food, wine and related pleasures. On Thursdays Sulzberger's diversion is Home, a similar free-standing section celebrating furniture, interior decoration and gardening Fridays it is...
I am constantly coming back nowadays, but I must admit that the Yazoo of my truest reality is a languid village on a summer's day of 30 years ago, when one big car whipping through with out-of-state plates was diversion enough. I know what Mark Twain...