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...British scholar John Livingston Lowes. He not only traced literary and mythological influences on the poet's imagery, but demonstrated that Coleridge (1772-1834) was a tireless armchair traveller. There was, in fact, a real Xanadu (more commonly called Shangdu) with the remains of real walls and towers. Marco Polo had been there. And there were in the world -- though not in the same place except on Coleridge's bookshelf -- marvellous caves of ice, mighty fountains, rivers that might well be sacred, caverns measureless to man, and a real, Abyssinian Mount Abora...
...worked as musclemen for Piat's political rivals. A probe of the local political milieu then resulted in charges of corruption against several officials. Last week police dropped murder charges against the original suspects and arrested Lucien Ferri, 22, who has confessed to firing the fatal shots, and Marco Di Caro, 21, who admitted driving the motorcycle. This opens a fresh investigation into the presumption that the masterminds of the slaying were not Piat's political opponents but drug dealers linked to the local Mafia. "If the police keep digging with what they've got," said a Hyeres cafe owner...
...major function of modern Vice Presidents is to travel, and Nixon turned himself into a latter-day Marco Polo: nine trips to 61 countries. Everywhere he went, he conferred, orated, debated, press-conferenced. In Moscow to open a U.S. trade exhibit in 1959, Nixon got into a finger-pointing argument on communism with Soviet Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev in the kitchen of an American model home...
...half an hour before the broadcast, a sixsome of us duly departed for the Chicago Sports Bar and Grille. Part of the master plan was already ruined as freshman Alexis Boyle had received a message at the hotel's front desk from boyfriend (and Harvard forward) Marco Ferrari about the game's outcome earlier in the evening. But she didn't tell anyone, and although I subconsciously tried my darndest to figure out what it was she knew, I couldn't penetrate her chronically happy countenance...
...Cohagan, Perry 24 2 7 9 0 40 Halfnight, Ashlin 24 1 8 9 1 18 McLaughlin, Peter 27 0 7 7 0 26 Kennish, lan 23 1 5 6 0 4 Lonsinger, Bryan 27 1 5 6 0 14 Swenson, Stuart 18 1 3 4 0 14 Ferrari, Marco 10 0 2 2 0 10 McLean, Keith 2 1 0 1 0 0 Philpott, Ethan 8 1 0 1 0 8 Wenham, Sean 2 0 0 0 0 0 Maret, Geb 5 0 0 0 0 4 TEAM 27 128 216 344 53 500 OPPONENTS...