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...volleyball team blew the first game of a doubleheader Saturday night but recovered to blow the Merchant Marine Academy out of the water...

Author: By P. IVONNE Thompson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Volleyball Splits | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

Harvard (3-2) expected to get a couple of wins from its trip to New York against SUNY-New Paltz and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Instead, the Crimson split the two matches and came away disappointed...

Author: By P. IVONNE Thompson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Volleyball Splits | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

After the loss, Harvard came back in the next match and gained a victory against the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Harvard won in three straight games...

Author: By P. IVONNE Thompson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Volleyball Splits | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...they did not acquire, events that did not happen, even defining moments they did not have. Last Thursday the body of former U.S. Ambassador M. Larry Lawrence was dug up from Arlington National Cemetery after no one could come up with proof that he had actually been in the merchant marine. Lawrence had given himself a war record so moving that his voice cracked when he told about being thrown into the icy Arctic Ocean when his ship was torpedoed. It turned out, however, that he was at Wilbur Wright Junior College in Chicago at the time. If the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIES MY AMBASSADOR TOLD ME | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...memo that he, as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, wrote justifying Democratic contributor LARRY LAWRENCE's burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Holbrooke is a wee bit defensive. All the evidence now seems to suggest that Lawrence, a former ambassador to Switzerland, fabricated his supposed World War II Merchant Marine service and the German torpedo that allegedly ripped open his vessel, tossing him into the drink. Says a source close to Holbrooke: "When someone tells you about something that happened to them, do you say, 'Excuse me, could I see documentary evidence?'" The source continues: "The question is whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT--THEY TEND TO EXAGGERATE | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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