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...deal began in 1987, when Garrett, an engine company based in Phoenix, Arizona, beat out rivals from France, Britain and Canada for a contract to supply engines to Nanchang Aircraft, a Chinese government-owned manufacturer. Nanchang said it needed the engines for a light military jet trainer, the K-8, that was destined to be sold abroad. In November 1991, the U.S. Commerce Department, which had been moving aggressively to promote American trade by cutting through export barriers, quietly dropped national security controls originally imposed during the cold war, allowing the engines to be shipped to China without an export...
Well, maybe not. Up on remote Garrett Mountain, the local police, FBI and ! National Guard have been searching the grounds around Potts' cabin for the past three weeks, ever since the body of 19-year-old Robert Earl Jines, his head bashed in, was discovered in a shallow grave 75 yds. away. Potts, 50, a wiry, intense man, is the prime suspect in Jines' murder, as well as the death of up to 14 others. The murders stretch back 15 years and all the way to New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia and Florida. Potts denies involvement in all these...
Three of the fellows went on to become famousHarvard professors: W.V.O. Quine, B.F. Skinner,and Garrett Birkhoff...
VICTORIAN AMERICA: CLASSICAL ROMANTICISM TO GILDED OPULENCE, by Wendell Garrett (Rizzoli; $65). The over-the-top style known as Victorian celebrated the industrial age's lucky few. Never mind that for the masses, conspicuous consumption usually meant an advanced case of tuberculosis. Still, the rich could be both showy and tasteful. Garrett's homage to opulent eclecticism guides us through the layered textures and studied array of objets that . whisper "old money" while at the same time suggesting the mother of all garage sales...
Elias, who set 21 school records and three NCAA Division I-AA marks, is the first Princeton player to win the award since running back Judd Garrett won it in 1989, a year after Tiger quarterback Jason Garrett...