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...Between 6 p.m. March 28 and 9 a.m. March 29, an unidentified person stole $250 in cash and checks from an unlocked desk drawer in Andover Hall at the Divinity School Police have no suspects in the case...
...year after the closing ceremonies, Sarajevo clings to the Olympics with a tenacity that knows a turning point when one comes along. The Olympic emblems have not come down from store windows nor have the ties been retired to an appropriate bottom drawer because Sarajevo does not want to get over the Games. Reminiscence is everywhere. Hajrudin Cengic, president of the town assembly's executive council and city coordinator for the Olympics, loses his managerial demeanor to a faraway look: "There is not a single day that passes that I do not remember the Olympics. The city looked really gorgeous...
...installation of modern technology. In October 1980, faced with mounting deficits, then Owner Lord Thomson said he would fold the Times unless he found a buyer within five months. When he found one, his choice seemed to much of the staff, and to many of the Times's top-drawer readers, a fate worse than death: Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, proprietor of the tabloid daily Sun, which features screaming headlines and photographs of naked women, and the equally lowbrow Sunday News of the World. As proof of his good intentions, Murdoch recruited Harold Evans, for 14 years the esteemed...
...crisp "Shut up!" silences the alarm for a satisfying four- minute snooze. Caffeine addicts no longer have to wait for room service if they are willing to lug along Melitta's 4-lb. automatic drip machine ($40), complete with filters, creamer and sugar bowl. The Take-along Desk Drawer ($40) fits tiny office supplies in a lightweight nylon case--a mere 5 1/2 in. by 9 in. Contents include a paper punch, scissors, 6-ft. tape measure, screwdriver and a telescoping presentation pointer for meetings...
...says Los Angeles Lawyer Jack Quinn. "That's what the serious collector looks for." Muses Hans Rohrer, a computer manager in Munich: "These pieces are reverse time machines. They exude a flavor--even a musty smell--of yesterday, a bit of immortality." Rohrer keeps all his yesterdays in a drawer at home. Quinn keeps the family immortality collection snug in a bank vault, although his journalist wife Joan has been known to wear several pieces of it, simultaneously, on her wrist...