Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...felt the odds were in his favor when he took the stand last week in his trial on federal racketeering and fraud charges. For three days the bon temps Governor with silver hair and a golden tongue was by turns defiant and disarming, depicting himself as a loyal friend ("Man, I spent my life helping people, friends and enemies") and an absent-minded administrator ("I'm not a detail person"). Playing to the jury with the verve of a fiddler at a fais- dodo, the son of a Cajun sharecropper provoked chuckles from his courtroom claque, exasperation from the judge...
...video games a few years ago, and they returned with an Etch-A-Sketch? What they need is at least three hours in front of the tube on a Saturday morning. If they balk, tell them that you're appearing in one of the commercials, or that your friend Freddie's wealthy dad, Mr. ceo, watches every Saturday to pick up business tips. Only when they've put in their tube time will they begin to understand the vital differences between He-Man and She-Ra, Voltron and MASK, Wuzzles and Lots-a-Lots-a-Leggggggs...
...this celebration of the sumptuous, it is the odd items that twinkle brightest: a money clip from Jack Benny to George Burns ("I want the dollar bill back!"); an Indian war bonnet from Gary Cooper to Pablo Picasso; Henry Fonda's painting of Stewart's favorite horse to Old Friend Jimmy; and from Stan Laurel to young Roddy McDowall, his famous hat, autographed...
...friend called the FBI, which found the suitcase crammed with top-secret papers, some on Chinese spy operations in the U.S. Prosecutors concluded that Henderson-Pollard had planned to offer the goods to the Chinese. Her attorneys said that she had intended only to meet with the Chinese in an effort to launch her own p.r. project. Government prosecutors did not buy the explanation. "What better way to further her new career in public relations," they asked, "than to provide this type of would-be client with classified information...
Scott R. Sehon '86 of Lowell House says that a friend who graduated last year made him sign a piece of paper vowing that "I wouldn't be writing anything significant on my thesis in the last three days." Sehon adds that, when the time comes, "he's going to send...