Word: luke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Late-night coffee drinkers and North Yardlings will be left remembering "the day the music died" for at least this month, since an official at Harvard Real Estate (HRE) last week suspended the popular street singer Luke's permit to perform in Forbes Plaza, the Harvard-owned square in front of Au Bon Pain...
...battle between the two--dubbed council wars by local comics who portrayed Vrdolyak as a Darth Vader and Washington as a Luke Skywalker who destroyed the "machine star" by hitting at its core, the mayor's office--had its final clash this past year when Washington showed that he had enough political clout to maintain his Democratic endorsement for Mayor. He then handily won the general election, defeating a Republican and Vrdolyak...
...York City, with the nation's largest IV addict population, Stephan Sorrell, a streetwise physician at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, calls for more radical interventions. "If we want to stem the tide of this epidemic," he says, "we have to open more methadone-treatment slots. I'd suggest that we go to Needle Park and give away methadone and syringes rather than letting the dealers sell heroin." Currently, there are only 30,000 methadone slots for the city's 200,000 or more IV addicts. Last week New York Governor Mario Cuomo announced that the state would...
This week's guests include Mr. and Mrs. Righteous Proletariat, Ken (Daniel Luke Zelman) and Eileen (Heather Gunn), as well as Mr. M.B.A. and Mrs. Happiness-is-a-BMW, Ted (Peter Ocko) and Lou (Nicole Galland). With such contrasting types in one place, something is rotten in the camp of Erpingham...
...adrenal-cell implants to correct Parkinson's, a neural disorder that afflicts an estimated 1 million Americans. At the Rochester conference, doctors from China to Mexico reported successes in dozens of adrenal implants. At least four U.S. medical centers, including New York University in Manhattan and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's in Chicago, are planning to perform the operation on at least 30 Parkinson's victims in the next six months...