Word: feb
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...sheets did send in checks. Some of what they contributed ended up in the D.N.C.'s hard-money account. But in many cases there is a considerable gap between the dates on the call sheets and the eventual donations. For example, call sheets obtained by TIME show that on Feb. 6, 1996, Clinton was urged to contact Gail Zappa, widow of the musician Frank Zappa. Whether or not the President made the call, five months later she contributed $30,000 to the D.N.C., of which $20,000 was shifted into the hard account...
...Mezer is from Hebron, a Hamas stronghold on the West Bank, and was detained several days for rock throwing during the intifadeh. Arrested at the Canadian border in January as he tried to enter the U.S. illegally, he was detained until Feb. 6, when he posted a $5,000 bond. Some reports said Abu Mezer's alleged bombmaking was sped by news of the Hamas attack in Jerusalem. On Saturday, though, Hamas released a statement denying involvement in the Brooklyn plot. It declared, "Our battlefield is Palestine...
Burroughs, who was born Feb. 5, 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri, graduated the College with a degree in English. After graduation he began a period of what he would later call "aimless drifting and boredom." After being dismissed from the Army for physical reasons after only three months, he spent the early 1940s in Chicago and New York working as a private detective, bartender, exterminator and newspaper reporter...
...Hogan. Hogan was the game's third-winningest player with 63 tour victories. He won nine major championships, four U.S. Open titles, the career Grand Slam and was the only person to win three Grand Slam events in a single season. But the Hogan Mystique was truly born on Feb. 2, 1949, when Hogan's car collided head-on with a bus. Hogan shattered both his legs, and nearly died from blood clots. Less than a year later, though, he was back on tour. He never played in more than seven tournaments in a single season after the wreck...
...Albert Carnesale left two weeks ago to become the new chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Now graduate students there are worried they might get another Harvard professor, fromer professor of government Douglas A. Hibbs Jr., who resigned from his tenured post at Harvard in Feb. 1985 amidst an allegation of sexual harassment by a student...