Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North married Betsy Stuart in a traditional military ceremony, complete with an arch of crossed swords. He had met her on a blind date set up by his cousin when he was in his last year at Annapolis and she was working at Hecht's department store in suburban Maryland. At first, she refused to return his calls requesting a date, but his persistence -- and a snapshot -- won her over. Only days after their honeymoon in Puerto Rico, Larry, as his wife has always called him, left for Viet...
...facts did surface, however. Guterman spent his childhood moving around with his family from Maryland to Montreal to Calgary, finally settling in Toronto in 1976 and attending the Hebrew Day School there. He matriculated at MIT for his freshman year, but subsequently transfered to Harvard. Chapman explains his friend's reasons for abandoning East Cambridge. "Larry was under the impression that [MIT] was a good training school for the visual arts...
Tennessee and Maryland already require video stores to display M.P.A.A. ratings, while New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts are considering similar laws. The M.P.A.A., however, strongly resists the creation of a separate R-V code. The association contends that it already considers a film's violence in its rating. The M.P.A.A. usually evaluates only those films that are released in theaters, not those that are made exclusively for videocassette. Nevertheless, producers of films shown in theaters can get around the system. If the M.P.A.A. decides that a film deserves an X, the producer can elect to release his film unrated...
...case of University of Maryland Basketball Star Len Bias, who died in similar circumstances last year, no one suspected that Jackson had been using drugs. "Jeep had this responsibility and maturity that was just too strong to be overcome by the temptation to use drugs," said a friend. However, police called cocaine a "contributing factor" in Jackson's death. Jackson was well aware of cocaine's dangers: an FBI agent had lectured his team, and El Paso Coach Don Haskins had ordered three surprise drug tests, including one less than two months before Jackson's death. Jeep had passed...
...countdown started around midnight at Baltimore's University of Maryland Hospital. At that hour doctors began the delicate task of removing the heart and lungs from a 32-year-old victim of a car accident declared brain dead several hours earlier. Working swiftly, they excised the organs, chilled them to 45 degrees F and transported them across town to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Clinton House, 28, a refrigeration mechanic whose lungs were ravaged by cystic fibrosis, had been summoned from his home and was being wheeled into the operating room. He had waited a year for this moment. In a room...