Word: leone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leon Palandjian (HARVARD) d. Rich Lees (Temple...
...editors become convinced that they can somehow unravel the Templars' scheme if they put a secret map under Foucault's pendulum, a device invented by the 19th century physicist Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault to measure the earth's rotation. The pendulum, which still stands in Paris today, will supposedly indicate a site at which the earth's vital currents can be controlled, earthquakes can be created...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow, George M. Taber, Denise Worrell
...Leon '89, a member of the committee,said, however, that improving lighting was anintegral part of making the Yard safe. "It's a lotof different little things. If we can change thefeel of Harvard Yard...it's discouraging [tocriminals]," she said...
Tutu will emphasize the facts: investment in South Africa perpetuates apartheid, and South African Blacks overwhelmingly favor divestment. Even Reverend Leon Sullivan, who created a set of moral principles for businesses that chose to stay in South Africa, now calls for a complete withdrawal of foreign funds. At a time when racial conflict is becoming more violent and bloody, both Tutu and Sullivan advocate the use of every peaceful pressure that can be brought against the South African government...