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...first game of the finals are about to begin at the Fabulous Forum. Newly-appointed head janitor Kurt Rambiss has the place sparkling clean...

Author: By Johnny C. Ausiello, | Title: The Magic's Back | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

That does little to clarify the case. Oluloro traveled to Oregon to marry a fellow Nigerian who had a U.S. residency permit. Over the years, she says, she and the children endured beatings by her husband Emmanuel, leading to a divorce last year. Lydia, who works as a janitor and has custody of the girls, lost the right to stay in the country because Emmanuel never completed the paperwork necessary to give her legal-residency status. She says she cannot leave her children to an abusive father -- but how can she take them home to an abusive culture? Emmanuel contests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Risk of Mutilation | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...years, Robert TRavers has worked all over Harvard University. He worked as a janitor in Radcliffe Yard, as a security guard at the Business School and as a parking attendant at the Science and Engineering lot on Oxford Street. In 30 years, though, Robert Travers says he's never seen a year like this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Year of the WORKER | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...teaching fellow at Harvard, West was preparing to give a talk on the Greek tragedy Antigone when one of the students, mistaking West for a janitor, asked him to bring in more chairs. West complied, but when the rest of the class arrived he marched to the lectern. He delivered an impassioned discourse on Antigone's love song "about human beings being so noble on one hand and so cruel on the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philosopher With a Mission: CORNEL WEST | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...extensively by Warren Commission investigators, and when I looked him up in the Warren Commission testimony, I found he plays a kind of Rosencrantz-and-Guilden stern-level role in the Warren Report, that of a peripheral figure in a key place: he was a live-in manager and janitor at Jack Ruby's sleazy strip joint, the Carousel Club. There's no doubt that the commission investigators were interested in his story -- the transcript of his testimony runs more than 200 pages -- but mostly because he was a source who might shed some light on the peculiarities of Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking A Darker View | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

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