Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final fact. In 1981 and 1982, DenHartog (who is now the head coach at Yale) was named Ivy League Player of the Year. Guess who won in 1984? Do I really have to tell...
When the Academics Committee voted last week, 11-2, to recommend that the Undergraduate Council call on Harvard and the military to bring Reserve Officer Training Corps back to campus, they did not debate the fact that the military discriminates against gays and lesbians, members said last night...
...does the film offer the easy pleasures of a conventional movie bio. Earl Mac Rauch's script mixes fantasy and fact in an ambitious, if muddled, attempt at surrealistic psychodrama. In the opening scene, the dead Belushi (played by newcomer Michael Chiklis) wakes up in a morgue, escapes in a gown resembling the toga he wore in Animal House and meets a guardian angel in the guise of a taxi driver (Ray Sharkey). Their conversations are intermingled with time- jumbled flashbacks of Belushi's life, snippets of his comedy material and scenes of Woodward pursuing the story...
What's wrong in all this? In Japan distributing stock before a firm goes public is not illegal; in fact, many newly formed companies routinely ask banks and other firms to purchase a portion of their unlisted stock before the public sale to prevent market volatility once it is trading. But prosecutors in the Recruit case intend to prove that the offers in many cases constituted bribes in exchange for anticipated political and business favors. If the prosecutors find evidence of a political quid pro quo, recipients could be charged with accepting bribes...
...extensive postwar literature of espionage and double agentry, fact and fiction tend to blur. Was Magnus Pym the name of John le Carre's perfect spy? Or was it Guy Burgess? Pym and Burgess, Donald Maclean and Toby Esterhase -- characters from the shadow world of MI6 and the KGB -- seem equally real, equally fanciful...