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...lawyers who had just taken them were the culmination of years of graduate study, disappeared from the state board of law examiners' offices. The deeply abashed three-member board alerted police and quickly notified the unlucky 542 out of the 6,562 tested. "There is no way to express how wretched we all feel about this thing," Law Examiner John E. Holt-Harris Jr. told the New York Times. The board is offering various ways to take part or all of a new test. The 542 aspirants are stunned. Three phoned a Long Island lawyer to inquire about a possible...
...past twelve months, as would-be astronomers plunk down anywhere from $100 to $8,500 per instrument. Says Kim Davey of Celestron International, an optical-instruments firm in Torrance, Calif.: "The comet is an excuse for people to buy the telescope they've always wanted." American Express is offering a $799 telescope "for Halley's comet and beyond," which can be paid for in monthly installments of $39.95. Burton Rubin, who made a fortune in the '70s on his E-Z Wider cigarette-rolling papers, hopes for a repeat performance from his $200 Halleyscope, a wide-angle telescope that comes...
...already been almost entirely paid for. The indictment claims as well that Duncan charged the Army $796 for a four-flight airline ticket that he got free through a frequent-flyer program. Duncan, who has sued the Army for violating his privacy by trying to obtain his American Express Card records, denied any wrongdoing. "He's not a Rambo," said his lawyer, John Dowd. "He's a quiet, intelligent...
Because Oman is sensitive about being seen as a U.S. client state, no U.S. personnel are stationed in the country. The 1980 agreement also stipulates that the bases may not be used without the Sultan's express consent. Nevertheless, Oman occasionally feels the need to assert its independence. Last September it announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union...
...adult life. In The Hateful Word, a middle-aged woman is infatuated with a prisoner of war. She impulsively embraces him, only to hear the cruel pronouncement " 'Soon I go back to Germany; I tell them there you are like, like--' He strained after the one word to express his gratitude. 'You are like mother to me--my English mother.' He was out of the room and down the stairs, leaving the hateful word tingling in her ears...