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...final vowel in the 1950s to make spelling match pronunciation.) "Those were tough times," says Leonard Safir, who recalls that his brother Bill "was bounced around a lot as a boy." According to Janklow, Safire's mother taught her sons "all you have in this world is blood and friendship...
Harvard abounds in clubs, teams, publications, orchestras, a capella groups, ethnic associations and sundry political associations. These activities can mean positions of prestige, ties of friendship, but they also mean commitment. Time and commitment. Behind every race, performance and magazine lies a large volume of meetings, rehearsals, practices, and planning sessions. Except for one loosely organized group--the Lowell Bell Tower Ringers. For them, every rehearsal is a performance, every performance a new composition. The only requirement for joining the group is a willingness to climb the eight flights of stairs and improvise on the ancient Russian bells. Any student...
...Nagorno-Karabakh)) broadcast interviews with Azerbaijani refugees. I heard one commentator say, 'Don't worry, the time will soon come when we'll give you a better house in Stepanakert than you used to have.' We said let's close the station. Soviet television gains nothing from it, and friendship between peoples will gain. But it didn't happen...
...breakthrough was accomplished by skilled undercover work, Government officials told TIME. In the past, investigators had been unable to penetrate the closely knit fraternities formed by Japanese businesses. But in June 1986 the Naval Investigative Service adopted a new tactic when it began probing the Star Friendship Association, a consortium of 160 Japanese construction firms organized for the express purpose of raising prices on contracts at the huge U.S. naval base in Yokosuka...
...gain firsthand evidence, naval agents managed to recruit a key officer of the Star Friendship Association. The man, who had had a falling-out with one of the companies in the group, agreed to wear a hidden microphone at its meetings. The club operated with almost comic formality. A day or two after new contracts were announced by the Navy, the group would meet in downtown Yokosuka. "They would determine who was interested in bidding on specific contracts," says a U.S. official. "Then they would break up into smaller groups to decide who would get the award...