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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mills, a resident of Roslindale, left his Harvard post because of illness in June. He had worked for the University for 31 years, most recently acting as the Facilities Maintenance administration's front-line contact with its unions...
...driving his own children to school, also plunged in, pulling seven bodies from the water. Nye, a scuba diver, said efforts to help the children were hampered by water so opaque that it was impossible to see. Trapped children struggled to get out the front door, windows and one rear-end exit door. "I didn't expect to be alive, but I'm alive," said one. Twenty youngsters died and 63 people were injured, including the two drivers, in the worst school-bus accident in Texas history...
...bloody civil war that has claimed some 70,000 lives, there are no eternal optimists left in El Salvador. Blind hope went out of fashion after then President Jose Napoleon Duarte met with failure in three meetings with the leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. Since the last talks in 1987, the two sides have dug in with renewed determination. Now, four months after Alfredo Cristiani, 41, succeeded Duarte as President, there is new talk of reconciliation. Representatives of the government and the F.M.L.N. met two weeks ago in Mexico City to develop a framework for future...
This is embarrassing, but I am standing in front of 14 Carrots, the health- food store, looking at a little blue convertible and thinking, "Aw, isn't it cute?" I do not usually gurgle about cars. Like other citizens with some mileage on them, I used to love cars, maybe 30 years ago, and then I grew up. Now when a hunk of junk that cost twice the price of my first house needs new front shocks at only 120,000 miles, my feeling is bitter resentment. Americans hate their cars...
Having charge of a Miata is like taking a puppy for a walk. People want to pat its stubby little muzzle (which looks as if it is not quite ready for the big world, since it lacks a conventional front bumper). They tell you about sports cars they owned, and when they get to the part where they sold the old XK 120, they look stricken...