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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Singh owns the place now, and one is unsure which jarring and inapposite piece of his biography best begins to explain him: That he is a former SDS organizer who is building a Ritz-Carlton hotel? Or that he is a developer whose fondest wish is to run away with Sea Shepherd, a Greenpeace splinter group, and ram whale ships? Perhaps that he is a 36-year-old Massachusetts- born Sikh of French-Canadian extraction, in a turban and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt? Or that he read about this 102-acre property one Sunday in 1986 and bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Key West, Florida Pritam Singh's Strange Career | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...until then, Spence and other administrators are laying the groundwork for expansion, coming up with detailed plans for FAS' future and deciding how to sell them to Harvard's alumni. Last Sunday, Spence and several associate deans met with members of the Board of Overseers to explain those plans...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Spence Report Lists FAS's Top Fundraising Priorities | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

...always say one thing. If a mother can kill her own child, then what is left of the West to be destroyed? It is difficult to explain, but it is just that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with MOTHER Teresa: A Pencil In the Hand Of God | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...then barely in her teens, to be his partner in his nightclub act. Leaming contends that he also sexually abused her. The evidence here is spotty, based solely on Welles' word that Hayworth once admitted as much to him. But as a working hypothesis, the trauma of incest may explain a lifetime of otherwise inexplicable, self- destructive blunders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sad Life of a Love Goddess | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...wish to explain my position more clearly so that perhaps Larew might think through his opinions more carefully in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Defense of Israel Is No Vice | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

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