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...cancel that charcoal. Some jokester dressed in a knight uniform just threw a bucket of water on the flame...

Author: By Andy Fine, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Streaks | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

...independent Germany will rouse fears all over Europe. Reunification would create new problems for German integration into the European Community in 1992 and could easily flame suspicions and destabilize relations between currently friendly nations...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: The Case Against Reunification | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

...decades a marker for relentless oppression, has overnight become something far different, a symbol of the failure of regimentation to suppress the human yearning for freedom. Ambassador Herder declared that the Wall will soon "disappear" physically, but it might almost better be left up as a reminder that the flame of freedom is inextinguishable -- and that this time it burned brightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archive: Freedom! The Berlin Wall | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...apartment below me screaming, then I heard a voice yelling, 'Are you okay?' " the stockbroker's assistant recalled. Shortly after a neighbor pulled her out of a smashed window into air filled with gas fumes, she heard three deafening explosions. Then she saw a "horrible, huge wall of flame." Before the long night was over, most of an adjacent block containing ten buildings was incinerated by gas-fed flames that shot 50 ft. into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...Liaisons Dangerous is the tale of two aristocrats, Valmont and the Countess Juliette, who plot the seduction of several young women including Cecile Volanges and Madame de Tourvel. Cecile has a jovial middle-aged fiance, a source of some amusement as he bumbles about. She also has a young flame, Danceny. Valmont and Juliette each plan to seduce a member of the young couple while Valmont tackles, as an extra challenge, the pure Marianne. Juliette and Valmont are married in Vadim's version, as is Marianne, who has a young daughter, these facts make the levels of jealousy and scheming...

Author: By Mark D. Payson, | Title: Dangerous Name of the Game | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

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