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McMahon's father, Vince Sr., was a successful promoter of staged shows in the Northeast. In 1982, McMahon bought his father's wrestling promotion company and turned it into Titan Sports...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wrestling Promoter Defends Rowdy Style | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

Opponents of death penalty were State Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas M. Finneran; Ann Lambert, a lobbyist for the Massachusetts American Civil Liberties Union; Joshua Rubenstein, northeast regional director of Amnesty International USA and Representative John P. Slattery (D-Peabody...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Polls, Experts Debate Death Penalty | 4/13/1999 | See Source »

Opponents of death penalty were State Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas M. Finneran; Ann Lambert, a lobbyist for the Massachusetts American Civil Liberties Union; Joshua Rubenstein, northeast regional director of Amnesty International USA; and Representative John P. Slattery (D-Peabody...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pols, Experts Debate Death Penalty | 4/13/1999 | See Source »

...University, adroitly joining the Communist Party in 1949, and then worked in the state planning commission. In 1957 he made a speech questioning the party's economic policies. The following year, he was disgraced as a rightist, thrown out of the Communist Party and spent some years in the northeast tending livestock until Deng Xiaoping began looking for people to help carry out his economic reforms. Zhu was rehabilitated in 1978, and rose as an economic planner, largely on his own merit, since he had no base of support in the army, party or bureaucracy. "Everyone knew Zhu, not just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Star | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...believed to have committed in Croatia and Bosnia are chilling. In August 1991 his troops cut their teeth by driving civilian Croats from the city of Vukovar, looting and burning along the way. Arkan and his men stand accused of having tortured, mutilated and killed Muslims in the northeast Bosnian town of Bijeljina in April 1992. And in Zvornik that same month, his troops cleared the town of Muslims, extorting money from civilians for safe passage out of the hell they had created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Tea with Arkan the Henchman | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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