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...dead weight of the past lay across him like a toppled statue," a dejected cop reflects blearily, well short of the end of Robert Harris' new thriller. He could be speaking for Russia. Our cop is bone tired, trying to track the lurching progress of Fluke Kelso, an academic who has dug up the diary of Stalin's last days. The failing dictator got a woman pregnant, the papers suggest, and she may have returned to Archangel, her home in the north. Kelso and a TV reporter head up there, followed by the cop, followed by military thugs. What they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Archangel | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

According to long-time friend Lay Lee Ong, Rey communicated verbal wishes to Ong that conflicted with the provisions of her will, reducing the amount that the 16 named beneficiaries, including PBHA, would receive...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers and Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: PBHA Awaits $1.3M Bequest | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...Lay Lee Ong is an honorable, decent and respectable member of the community who believes she was acting in Margret Rey's best interests," Mac-Donald said...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers and Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: PBHA Awaits $1.3M Bequest | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

From that storied past, I've come to know the Knicks of Charles Smith, Greg Anthony and Don Nelson. I have a war wound from the crumbling ending of every playoff series since I hit puberty--Smith's missed lay-ups against Chicago, John Starks's 2-of-18 debacle in Houston, Patrick Ewing's bricked runner against Indiana...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Bring Back the Lockout! | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

...half white and half Hispanic, are huddled over a PC. A beat spirals up. Obiedo offers some advice, and Mehr clatters away at the keyboard. They are making music. Once they settle on a beat, Obiedo will take a diskette bearing a rhythm track home and lay down some rhymes. Soon they hope to have enough for a CD. Boasts Obiedo: "I'm going to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop Nation | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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