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...when the Palestinian stone-throwing occurred, the Faithful were more than a half mile away, prevented from entering the Old City walls by Israeli police...

Author: By Joseph Enis, | Title: Arab Activists Massacred the Facts | 10/11/1990 | See Source »

Sophomore Rachel Lewis paced Harvard with a third-place finish in 18:32 over the 3.1-mile course. Karin Swartz, Alais Griffin, Wendy Campbell and Ellen Villa ran together the entire way, finishing seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th, repsectively, 12 seconds apart...

Author: By Sean Becker, | Title: B.C. Harriers Steal Show at GBC's | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

...brightest spot of all was the come-from-behind performance of junior Spencer Punter. At the two-mile mark, Punter attacked the rocky terrain, moving from 22nd to third before reaching the tape...

Author: By Sean Becker, | Title: B.C. Harriers Steal Show at GBC's | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

...Denver businessman James Metz, who saw the sleepy S&L as the future flagship of a financial empire. He named himself chairman and hired Wise, an S&L marketing whiz from Columbia Savings in Kansas, to run the company. The nattily dressed Wise wasted no time in transforming Mile High's small-town image. He launched an ambitious expansion drive, unveiled plans for a glass-and-steel headquarters downtown, and renamed the company Silverado, evoking the dreams of prospectors in the days of the Wild West. Silverado was only the 26th largest S&L in the state, with total assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running with A Bad Crowd: Neil Bush & the $1 billion Silverado debacle | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

Colorado state officials seized Silverado in December 1988 and turned it over to federal regulators, who reopened it as a reborn Mile High Federal S&L and later sold it to First Nationwide Savings Bank, a subsidiary of Ford Motor. Investigators are trying to track the assets of the high-living Walters and Good, who claim they are broke. So far the investigators have found 174 trust funds linked to Good, who apparently still has staunch friends in Colorado. The Denver Economic Development Agency has just awarded a $100,000 development grant to Good Enterprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running with A Bad Crowd: Neil Bush & the $1 billion Silverado debacle | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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