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...students, who staged the prank the night before the Harvard-Dartmouth football game, also sent a letter of apology to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...

Author: By Margaret C. Ervin, | Title: Dartmouth Vandals Pay Dearly For Damage to John Harvard | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

...Boston University student was not asked to pay for the damages because he was not involved in the prank, said one of the Darmouth students who asked not to be identified...

Author: By Margaret C. Ervin, | Title: Dartmouth Vandals Pay Dearly For Damage to John Harvard | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

...sober light of morning, the boys began to wish they had never tried their puckish prank. Whenever Per put his rucksack down, the arm inside made such a resounding clunk that his companions took to teasing him. Per, they said, must be the vandal who had alarmed the city's police force. And so that very night, the sheepish boys aroused a drowsy policeman and placed the severed limb before him. Before Per and Mike can live happily ever after, they may have to pay for the mermaid's repair. And that is likely to cost them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denmark: Cutting Up with a Mermaid | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...prison guard's falling hopelessly in love with him. The half-mad policy would have been dankly comic had not the results so often been tragic. Poet Armando Valladares, 22 years a political prisoner, tells of a twelve-year-old boy who was arrested for a prank, tortured and raped by guards-then marked down as a homosexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Enemies of the State | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...Black student who had the bad fortune to he walking past the scene, and shouted their disappointment when the fire finally went out. The two freshmen were eventually disciplined by the College and stated, in a public apology: "We honestly say that the incident was meant only as a prank and sincerely felt that the incident would be passed aside as harmless...We did it for a little excitement...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Fight Fiercely Harvard | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

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