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Nominee: "I regret strongly this grave mistake of my youth...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Inside Dope | 11/12/1987 | See Source »

...knew then what I know now," Dennison said, "I'd have never left." Quarterback Babe Laufenberg, who ended a third Redskins episode with still no playing time, squandered his best chance on the picket line. "I have one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave," he said, "and I didn't even get to eat the banana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Formation: Odd Man Out | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Lucy's day doesn't get any better. Having nibbled on a fatal Korean chicken dumpling, Lucy finds herself dying on an emergency ward table. After a year of experimenting with spells and incantations Zelda (Judith Ivey), her clairvoyant sister, somehow manages to resurrect her from the grave. Lucy returns only to find Jason aloft in a slick Manhattan high rise in bed with his new wife. And with that cold realization. Lucy puts Jason behind her and embarks on a new life...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Grave Mistake | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...coup was announced over national radio following an outbreak of gunfire near the presidential palace in Ouagadougou, the capital. Government officials said Sankara was shot to death and hastily buried, along with a dozen others killed in the coup, in a mass grave on the capital's outskirts. Members of the murdered President's family watched the burial in tears. A populist who religiously consulted with village leaders before embarking on new policies, Sankara made personal probity a point of honor in a country that has had more than one corrupt leader since winning independence in 1960. He boasted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burkina Faso Upright Down | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...named ambassador to a major power. As usual, Luce made a spectacular entrance and exit: in her first major speech, just a couple of weeks before the Italian general election, she broke nearly every unwritten rule by eschewing diplomatic platitudes in favor of a pointed warning about the "grave consequences" for voters if they became "unhappy victims of totalitarianism of the right or of the left." Four years later, she resigned for reasons of health: dust laced with lead arsenate had been flaking off the painted ceiling of her bedroom, gradually poisoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's First Renaissance Woman : Clare Boothe Luce: 1903-1987 | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

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