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...appears on the American scene in Italy as a professional friend, employed by a rich American to retrieve his neer-do-well son, Philipe(Maurice Ronet), who has been roaming around Italy spending his father's money and annoying his fiancee Marg(Marie Laforet) for a year. Philipe seems to take pleasure in torturing Tom, telling Tom that he'll return to America and Tom will get his money, while clearly having no intention of doing so. On a disastrous yachting trip on which Tom gets sunstroke, Philipe throws Marg's manuscript overboard, and Marg demands to be put ashore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Quasi-Americans Abroad | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

...came upon two brothers, Cole and William Neer, who were taking a shortcut through the park on their way home to supper. He tied them up, molested one, stabbed them both, then fled back to his apartment as police and ambulance sirens wailed in the distance. Dodd wrote about the thrill of it. "I was kind of afraid that I was going to get caught," he told the Oregonian. "And then as I watched the papers, I realized that the police didn't have any clues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil's Disciple | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

According to Neer, Harvard has vast resources in the fine arts that the department ignores. "There are thousands of artifacts in the Peabody museum and [the department] limits itself to art in the Fogg, the Busch and the Sackler [museums]," he said...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Students to Petition Fine Arts | 3/9/1990 | See Source »

Still, criticizing the department for a lack offaculty isn't the top of the students' agenda,Neer said. Rather, he suggested simple reforms inthe department's curriculum, such as grantingconcentration credit more readily for African andAmerican art classes in other departments...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Students to Petition Fine Arts | 3/9/1990 | See Source »

...Neer said he expects that the petition will besigned by almost every sophomore and juniorconcentrator by the meeting this afternoon. "Noone has refused to sign it yet," he said

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Students to Petition Fine Arts | 3/9/1990 | See Source »

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