Word: england
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, it was one of The Crimson's highest ranking editors who was in charge of the editorial page that included Hsia's insulting journalistic effort. If this official of The Crimson, a publication so prestigious as to warrant a feature aricle in the New England Monthly, could allow such an article to be printed, exactly how dangerously uninformed are those of a lower rank who oversee the publication of similar articles or editorials dealing with the minority community? Clearly, this is unacceptable...
...Christmas Eve the hostages hear on the radio that Church of England envoy Terry Waite has failed to negotiate their freedom, and has returned to London. Anderson is crushed. Father Jenco tries to sing carols but is too depressed. Jacobsen draws a crude Christmas tree on a piece of cardboard and sticks it on the wall...
...19th century hero of this seafaring novel finally completes a laborious journey from England to New South Wales. In transit, Edmund Talbot grows weary of "this seemingly endless voyage"; safely ashore at Sydney Cove, he marvels that he has been at sea for nearly a year. In fact, the trip has taken much longer than that. William Golding first shoved Talbot off dry land in Rites of Passage (1980), which went on to win the Booker Prize, Britain's most coveted award for fiction. After receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, the author got back to Talbot...
This little gem from the revitalized British movie industry is a satire on Maggie's England and a fresh family drama as well. -- Slaves of New York lacks survival smarts...
...controversial study has emerged to challenge this conventional treatment. Published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, it concludes that immediate angiography and angioplasty, both costly and somewhat risky techniques, are unnecessary in most heart-attack cases. The 50-hospital study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and known as TIMI II (for thrombolysis in myocardial infarction phase II trial), involved 3,262 patients who had suffered apparent heart attacks. Within four hours of their attacks, all patients received a powerful clot dissolver, known as TPA (tissue plasminogen activator), along with heparin and aspirin to inhibit blood...