Word: marta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TAKING OF MARTA...
...scene last week was a nightmare come to life. Four masked terrorists held 25 passengers hostage on Atlanta's MARTA subway system. SWAT teams stormed in, killing all but one terrorist--but not before the captors murdered four hostages...
MICHAEL JACKSON spent only six hours in the Santa Marta shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, but the visit made headlines for weeks. First a judge temporarily barred his film crew, headed by Spike Lee, from shooting the video for They Don't Care About Us in the slum. That resolved, Jackson arrived by helicopter and was swept into a newly painted house for two hours of makeup before being filmed singing and dancing on and around cinder-block shacks. Finally came revelations that the film company had unknowingly paid off local drug lords for permission to shoot. "Producers have...
...wonderful person and a really warm guy," said Marta R. Weiss '97-'96, who took a creative writing class with Heaney...
...Marta Rivas '96 wrote the alphabet belching message in the free spirit of the night. "That was a lot of fun," she said. "I actually put up that message about belching your way through the alphabet to scare people away." Although she did rake in responses from her charming ad, she ended up with a date by responding to someone else's. "I responded to someone who said that he liked to watch the Simpson's, sit around and make fun of people," Rivas said laughing. "So I have a date to have a TV-dinner with...