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Argeros declined to say how many of the shoplifters caught are Harvard students. "I'll say this throughout all of society6," he said, adding. "One big factor is that the person who drops a 20-cent pen in his pocket and walks out doesn't think he's done anything significant. Multiply that by 1000 and you cut into profits...
...drafted it with the knowledge of the U.S. embassy in Paris and the White House. But Mitch Daniels, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, denied that the Reagan Administration had any connection with the letter and offered his apology for the incident provoked by Perkins' pen. White House Political Director Edward Rollins condemned the misguided missive, calling it "totally insulting...
...Mass, fearing that it would make the faithful feel as if they were in a concentration camp. Residents of Cracow also wondered why a park that had been used for a papal Mass in 1979 had been subdivided with wooden railings that gave it the appearance of a cattle pen. The likely explanation: it was a clever way to keep the Pope from mingling with the people...
Baron Marcel Bich, 68, the ballpoint pen and pantyhose tycoon from France, who spent $10 million over the past four campaigns, has given up at last. In Newport, where the race has been conducted since 1930, Baron Bich is remembered fondly for his distinctive white costumes and for the day he sailed off in the wrong direction at the starting line and disappeared into a fog bank. Now the old Frenchman's craft, France 3, belongs to Moviemaker Yves Rousset-Rouard, who has her back in Newport for another try. The hardiest dreamer left is Alan Bond...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: "I think of J.R.R. Tolkien. The year is 1926. He sits in his study at Oxford correcting a student's thesis. The student had, for some reason, left a page blank. When Tolkien came to it, he picked up his pen and wrote on the blank page: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' Thus launched one of the great literary careers of our century. He was asked why he had done that, and he replied: 'It popped into my head.' No machine, no electronic wizardry...