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Once, when Braverman was caught in a downpour, she stepped into Tommy's and the staff provided her with towels to dry off, she said...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Tommy's Lunch: Dead at the Age of 34 | 12/5/1992 | See Source »

...rain began as a light drizzle. By the time we had visited the final stop on our ice cream odyssey through Harvard Square, the open skies bled a full-fledged downpour...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Herrell's Tops the Square | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...changing topography is befuddling flood-control planners and straining the complex system of dams, reservoirs and levees along major waterways like the Brazos. The Texas floods were inevitable because of the size of the downpour that fell on an already soaked region. But their destructiveness was multiplied when runoffs from unexpected points turned quiet creeks into torrents. In Brazoria County, Oyster Creek flooded and combined with the Brazos to create a lake nine miles wide and up to 50 ft. deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Come Hell or High Water | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

Under a torrential downpour, Dandeny Munoz Mosquera spoke into a pay phone outside a Queens flower shop. A team of agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration watched him from a parked car across the street. Before he knew what was happening, Munoz Mosquera suddenly had a dozen guns pointed at his head. "We have captured the single most trusted hit man of the Medellin cartel," announced New York DEA chief Robert Bryden. Munoz Mosquera is believed to have killed 40 Colombian officers, government officials, witnesses and innocent bystanders, and may have masterminded the 1989 murder of presidential candidate Luis Carlos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Enforcement: Nabbing a Hit Man: Nabbing a Hit Man | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

Even into a royal life a little rain must fall, as the Princess of Wales discovered last week, when she was caught in a downpour during an open-air concert given by Luciano Pavarotti in London's Hyde Park. The occasion, which marked the 30th anniversary of Pavarotti's first major performance, also marked the ninth time in a month that Diana, possibly attempting to squelch growing rumors of marital discord, appeared in public with husband Charles. After huddling under plastic sheeting with a towel over her head during most of the 90-minute program, Diana emerged with dampened hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Soggy Crowns | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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