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Many of the women wore pictures of their missing relatives across their dresses, like rows of hard-won campaign medals. Some pulled out worn snapshots, while others brandished framed glossies. The haphazard gallery of photographs symbolized one of the nastiest legacies of Lebanon's nine years of civil war. During the spasms of bloodletting, which primarily pitted Muslim against Christian, as many as 5,000 people disappeared without a trace. Most were taken by rival militias in the perennial quest for revenge or as hostages for the return of members of the abductors' own sect. What makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: Remembering | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

Unfortunately, he can't decide what to write about Reading The Wrong Stuff is as much fun as watching Lee pitch and cavort but it is a little like watching a highlight film, exciting and perhaps even dramatic at times, but haphazard. The book is written chronologically, but anyone at all familiar with Lee's career could open it anywhere, read a few pages and feel right at home. So often as a player. Lee seemed to be offering unusual, but valid insights-into the game and there was the hope that after retiring he would have had some grand...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: High and Way Outside | 7/20/1984 | See Source »

...taken place in pre-medical and medical education, they have been over-shadowed by the "Revolution in Biology" and the advances in behavioral sciences, economics and applied mathematics. Medical education simply has not kept pace with these changes and has at best fitted them into the curricula in a haphazard, piecemeal fashion...

Author: By Dr. WARREN Wacker, | Title: The Perfect Doctor | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...record book will show how the Crimson held the hosts under control for most of the contest. Instead, they will show that the host Adelphi squad used its strength and a seemingly haphazard fast-breaking offense to regain the momentum and turn the three-goal defecit into a three-goal victory...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Adelphi Dumps Laxmen, Ends Crimson Streak | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Staying in private homes may also serve to stretch skimpy campaign funds, but the practice adds to the already legendary chaos of the Jackson drive. Jackson's schedules are haphazard at best, and difficulty in finding the homes of the poor is making him even later than usual. In Baltimore, campaign workers had to hire a cab to lead a motorcade of aides and reporters to pick up Jackson at Jarrard's home Tuesday morning, and borrow $12 from a reporter to pay the fare. Even then, Aide Frank Watkins had to stop the caravan of vans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaigning in Free Verse | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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