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...drab this seems compared to the heady days of the early 70s, when "There was something exciting about pornography," as Norman Mailer says in the new documentary Inside Deep Throat. "It lived in some mid-world between crime and art. And it was adventurous." Porn films preoccupied critics, cops and the courts. Often financed by Mafia families, they attracted the crusading instincts of local, state and federal prosecutors, who shut down the films and secured the conviction of one actor. They were directed by men who could fancy themselves as artists, and starred off-Broadway actors as well...
...just twice this season, both times under decidedly unique circumstances and most recently in a 6-4 loss to Merrimack in Minneapolis, during which the majority of the Crimson’s skaters were more than mildly ill. Otherwise, it’s been nearly uninterrupted smooth sailing since mid-November...
Elizabeth Terry, housing administrator for Lowell House, said that it is too early to tell exactly what rooming adjustments Lowell will be making to accommodate the changes. She said she is waiting until rooming decisions are made in mid-April to make those arrangements...
...mid-80s, on a trip of American historians to Moscow, May said he witnessed firsthand Kennan’s diplomatic and scholarly expertise in arranging a collaboration with Soviet historians...
...open. In the Philippines, 22 alleged Muslim militants, including three top leaders of the Abu Sayyaf group, were killed during the bloody suppression of a prison riot. But offstage developments are just as frightening. TIME has learned that Philippine security forces seized a cache of sophisticated bombs during a mid-February raid on a safe house that police say was maintained by Abu Sayyaf in Manila. Twelve bombs manufactured from C4 plastic explosive were recovered, expertly hidden in items such as toothpaste tubes and deodorant bottles. "We call them invisible bombs because they are very, very difficult to detect," says...