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Eric Kilburn (guitar, drum, amp) -- Kilburn is director of the Nameless Coffee House on Church St. and plays folk and rock songs. They're not all happy songs because "there is war, poverty, and strife, and if you try to ignore them, you can live a happy, superficial life." He is often hired to play in Charles Square, though he is now in Nicaragua-for several weeks. "I feel I make people happy every time I play," he says...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Popping Strings For Profit | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

...desert" hardly makes them lovable. On the other hand, their opponents, the Tuareg desert tribesmen and their sometime allies the Chaamba Arabs, are at least as treacherous as the French. No one likes a story without sympathetic characters, and the only ones in Conquest of the Sahara are the nameless Arab and Black peasants and slaves who are robbed, raped, and murdered by both sides...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Made-for-TV Colonialism | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

...should they be. The nameless, stereotypical comedy props are Falstaffs for the Eighties, the stuff of a rich comedic vein that runs under and holds up the presumptive romance in this comedy romance Even against Cusack's domination of this running improv show, his co stars pull off a remarkable success time after time findfors in her few on-screen minutes, plays Professor Traub as more than just a wacky writing teacher: she is a kind of Paper chaselaw professor, seemingly about to utter. "Take this dime and call your mother Tell her you will never be a writer...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Meathead Strikes Again | 3/22/1985 | See Source »

...proud history of conflict resolution. Lawmakers occasionally settled things at ten paces, until William Graves of Kentucky killed Jonathan Cilley of Maine in 1839, prompting Congress to pass an antidueling law. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, a master of invective, once derided a colleague as a "noisome, squat and nameless animal." In 1856 Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Congressman bent on avenging an insult to an infirm uncle in the Senate, came upon Sumner from behind and, guttapercha cane in hand, beat him senseless on the Senate floor. Brooks resigned but was immediately voted back into office by his delighted constituents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Will Veto Again and Again | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

Months of intense student and faculty protests, by those who saw the donation as a endorsement of the apartheid South African regime, resulted in a compromise between the Kennedy School and the Engelhard Foundation. The $1 million was accepted, but the library remains nameless with only a plaque in the magnate's memory...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: So You Want to Give Money to Harvard... | 1/11/1985 | See Source »

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