Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indictment filed last week tells it, the point-shaving plan was hatched on Feb. 2, the day of a game with Southern Mississippi; Tulane was favored by 10 1/2 points. Students Gary Kranz, 21, Mark Olensky, 21, and David Rothenberg, 22, all members of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, decided to see whether some of the players would agree to hold the team under the point spread. Kranz allegedly had already given cocaine to Senior Forwards Clyde Eads and Jon Johnson. When he offered them a piece of the proceeds from bets on the game, Eads and Johnson were not only...
...combat the problem. Conte, a 26-year veteran of the Hill, is something of an expert on all sorts of pests. Says he: "I've seen the beady-eyed Midwestern cockroach, the pesky little New England cockroach as well as the rodeo cockroach, usually found only west of the Mississippi...
...those who loved the character, Broderick's endearingly klutzy impersonation, Gene Saks' straightforward staging and the humanity of the author's reminiscence, Simon last week brought them back in the second Broadway installment of a planned autobiographical trilogy. Biloxi Blues sends Eugene to Mississippi for basic training in 1943. He faces authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation. He methodically loses his virginity with a prostitute (Randall Edwards), less for pleasure than as a rite of passage, then rediscovers his innocence in the chaste embrace of a Catholic schoolgirl. He confronts the chasm between his diary jottings and literature...
...LOOK back on it, I guess I can blame the Army. Somewhere back in the early '70s, they drafted my father, an articulate. Harvard-educated physician, and sent him to Roanoke, Va. Not even someplace nice, like Antarctica, but Roanoke--home of the largest block of coal cost of Mississippi. I guess I can also blame my father for not fleeing northward as soon as the Army released him, remaining in the South and scaling my fate...
...last week. In separate incidents, two British citizens had been abducted earlier. Four other Americans seized by militants over the past year have yet to be released. Still in the country are an estimated 1,400 Americans. The U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and the guided- missile cruiser Mississippi were standing by off the Lebanese coast, prepared to carry out a larger evacuation. Observed a Western diplomat in Beirut: "We are moving into dangerous, uncharted areas. The violence is spiraling out of control...