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Others who are more sophisticated stopped short of directly accusing the Israeli government of countenancing the assualt, but pointed to it as evidence that Israel does not possess the capability of safeguarding the holy sites. True, Goodman did slip by but one incident in over fifteen years in a system of open access-is not a bad record...

Author: By Jesse M. Fried, | Title: The Lessons of the Mosque Assault | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...costume, the crowds of richly dressed spectators, the noise of the oars, and the shouts of the rowers, added to the music of innumerable instruments, produce a whole which would be difficult to parallel elsewhere." But rising maintenance costs gradually forced the royal barges off Thailand's waterways. Fifteen years ago, the royal procession disappeared altogether, a victim of jet-age austerity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Royalty Afloat | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...leaving. "If they had run out of mandarins they would have told us not to stand in line any longer," observed a wise babushka. "They're probably just unpacking a new crate...if there were none left, they would have told us." And so we stood there and waited. Fifteen minutes later, an employee emerged from behind the closed doors and told us that there were none left...

Author: By Allen M. Greenberg, | Title: From Russia With Frustration | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...fifteen-minute intermission reversed roles. The previously zealous Dartmouth began to feel the burden of 11 Ivy losses without a win, and the previously lethargic Crimson began to take command...

Author: By John Riffey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Hoopsters Outplay Big Green | 3/3/1982 | See Source »

...those heady days of the new exercise ethic. But as a true-blue '60s radical and one of those impassioned individualists who refuses to comply with the limits society sets on its fads and trends, Shapiro didn't restrict his jaunts to the conventional distances of ten or fifteen miles or even the marathon. Rather, Shapiro joined up with that elite--some say insane--class that has aptly labeled itself "ultrarunners...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Notes from the Long Run | 3/2/1982 | See Source »

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