Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend of mine is one of the Junior 12, and it was a big thing to him because his parents had promised him a Maserati if he made it," said new member J. Peter Wagner '88, "No one's promised me a Maserati, but it's still a nice thing...
Last week ARENA took out a two-page ad in the daily El Diario de Hoy charging Duarte with "fabricating false and contradictory testimony to defame D'Aubuisson." It added that a more likely suspect was Colonel Reinaldo Lopez Nuila, former commander of the National Police and a friend of Duarte's. Interviewed on a local television station, D'Aubuisson accused Nuila of responsibility for death-squad killings. The charge against Nuila may be D'Aubuisson's warning to other members of the military to get behind the right or else face damning evidence he might leak to the public...
...brats. A cartoon in Chinese Youth, for example, depicts an obese child lying in a bed littered with toys, stuffing himself with cakes and milk served by Mother, while Father stands ready to dress him. In his column in the China Daily, Xu Yihe writes disapprovingly of Jiajia, a friend's pampered daughter who barely budges to prepare for school in the morning. While Jiajia sits on her bed, says Xu, "her mother combs her hair, her grandmother feeds her breakfast, her grandfather is under the table putting her shoes on, and her father is getting her satchel ready." Single...
...Government built its case on more than 100 wiretapped telephone conversations in which El Rukns used a complicated code to discuss terrorist schemes. "The young friend" was a code name for Gaddafi, "the old man" meant Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. "Apples" and "potatoes" referred to explosives...
...physique for it, but he's also got the charm down pat. After all, if Stanley's such a boor, why would anyone fall-and remain-madly in love with him? Gardner answers that question by making himself attractive and intelligent underneath the uncouth veneer. Ethan Mintz as a friend of Stanley's who falls in love with Blanche is equally superb, though his accent is practically nonexistent...