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...however, would (presumably) serve only the limited number of undergraduates of legal drinking age, and would likely boost the already abundant number of graduate students at Loker. Rather than bring students together in a genial environment, alcohol would only fragment the student body beneath Memorial Hall just as it does above ground...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Bar Would Polarize | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

...unauthorized files in Nicholson's notebook computer also allegedly included a fragment from one document that described the planned undercover assignment to Moscow of a new case officer whom Nicholson had trained at Camp Peary. In his Chevy van, agents also found a computer diskette that contained a document summarizing seven secret reports from the debriefing of business people who had visited Russia. Investigators say they won't compile a complete damage assessment until after Nicholson's trial. They fear creating a document that could be obtained by the defense during discovery proceedings and revealed in open court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHER OR TRAITOR | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...meteor fragment "the size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 25, 1996 | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

Those who object to fraternities (and final clubs) usually do so on two grounds. The first is pragmatic: They're a bad element, they promote drunkenness and endanger women, and they fragment the campus social scene. The second is more fundamental: Single sex social institutions are discriminatory and elitist, and hence we can't condone them morally...

Author: By David H. Goldbrenner, | Title: In Defense of Elitism | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

Within the tight circles of terrorism experts, Thurman is a legend. In 1990 he solved what everyone thought was an almost perfect crime, figuring out who destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. Thurman matched a fragment of a circuit board from the bomb's timer to an identical circuit board, which was part of a timer the CIA had recovered from an intact, unexploded bomb seized in Togo in 1986. Thurman's amazing command of detail led to a Zurich electronics firm that admitted selling 20 such timers to the Libyan regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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