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...residents of a second-floor suite where a robbery seemed to be narrowly averted proved luckier...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burglars Strike Matthews Hall For Third Time | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...Bullets flying again, this time in the lobby of a Jewish community center in Los Angeles, in the middle of a sunny day. The victims number five, one, a five-year-old boy, close to it. Three of them are little children, so young that among their peers, the luckier innocents, some were smiling and holding hands as their rescuers led them to safety. Extra cruel this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School's Out, But There's No Vacation for Gun Nuts | 8/10/1999 | See Source »

...friendship, and her greatest pleasure came from conversation with friends, conversation that was full of curiosity about how the world worked and a moral energy about how it should work. The magazine was very lucky to have had her as a journalist all those years; we were far luckier to have had her as a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Appreciation | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...REALITY] Gore spent five months in Vietnam--as an Army reporter. So he was indeed luckier than most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candidate Truth Watch | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...brass section, sometimes dicey, was wonderful here in rehearsal and Yannatos' tough love made its staccato playing even better. The slow turns of the oboe at the outset have an Italianate flavor (Walter's grandfather was named Antonio Pistone) and the tonal language is cosmopolitan: Piston, luckier than most Harvard seniors, won a Paine Traveling Fellowship after graduation. You'll want to listen in the third movement for exuberant music that Dr. Y wants to deliver in "band style...

Author: By Matt A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HRO Suits Up for Junior Parents | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

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