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...back to science departments at various institutions. He paid Harvard back for his first lab handsomely with a $12.5 million (that's in 1968 dollars, by the way) donation to build the Science Center, which as any good Crimson Keyer will tell you, is as breathtakingly hideous as one of Land's cameras...
...group the Knack, whose song My Sharona topped the charts worldwide in 1979. Sister Beth is a writer. But the family isn't surprised that Geoffrey has become so colorful in his work. "Look at the people who will go on the Jerry Springer show and display the most hideous aspects of their character just to go on TV," says brother Doug. "I'm not sure politicians aren't the same...
...especially shocking that so many citizens of two U.S.-friendly African nations were murdered in the terrorist attack. Few Kenyans will ever exorcise the hideous images of charred bodies draped from a bus, of mutilated corpses stacked in the bed of a pickup truck, of the dazed walking wounded stained with the bright red of fresh arterial blood. No arrest, trial or conviction will make sense of the losses...
Small-town America never changes. The towns might look a little different, downtown character snuffed out by those hideous superstores on the edge of town everywhere. But the people are the same...
...died on Sept. 2, 1969, at the age of 79, some six years before his battalions surged into Saigon. Aspiring to bask in the reflected glory of his posthumous triumph, his heirs put his embalmed body on display in a hideous granite mausoleum copied from Lenin's tomb in Moscow. They violated his final wishes. In his will he specified that his ashes be buried in urns on three hilltops in Vietnam, saying, "Not only is cremation good from the point of view of hygiene, but it also saves farmland...