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...think that's a wonderful tradition of public service," says Forsgard, who has run community service projects herself in the past. Those include a kite-making workshop at a public library in her hometown...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Scandinavian Studies Prof. Comes to Eliot Post | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...Kite flyby. More than 3,000 kites made by schoolchildren in Tours, France, will be joined together and flown, creating a colorful arch across the Cher River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: EARTH DAY A GLOBAL FESTIVAL | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...Smithsonian Institution and has done more than any other person to preserve the record of the nation's great venture into flight. Paul E. Garber was born just as the Wright brothers began to inquire about flying machines. When Garber was five, his uncle gave him a kite, and his fascination with the sky was fixed for a long lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silver Hill, Maryland: A Flight Down Memory Lane | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

Ritter explained all this by saying that like many former drug runners, Kite needed a fake identity to be protected from the Mob. Ritter brought Kite's father to New York, where he declared that his son was a chronic liar. Still, Ritter warned, copycats might surface in the wake of Kite's allegations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bleak Days for Covenant House | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...Times, which published them last week. The Times also reported that a third man, Darryl Bassile, 31, had approached the paper in mid-January to say he too had sexual relations with Ritter. He had complained earlier to the Franciscan friary in Union City, N.J., after he heard of Kite's charges, and it started an investigation. A fourth accusation came from Paul Johnson, 33, an admitted felon who claimed that he was involved with Ritter for six years. Ritter denies that he had a sexual relationship with any of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bleak Days for Covenant House | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

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