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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alleged burglar had been seen in Adams House "several times," said Samuel A. Thernstrom '90, who was present at the capture. "I'm glad they caught him." he said...
...HUNDREDS of articles on the passing of anti-Biden tapes to The New York Times, The DesMoines Register, and the NBC Nightly News by John Sasso, present one of two views of the former Dukakis campaign manager's actions. Either Sasso was right to have made an issue out of Biden's appropriation of a Neil Kinnock speech or he was wrong...
...rich devoting his time to orphans and small animals? Or maybe you'd rather be doing something socially useful like Investment Banking. Give me a break. You want obscene sums of money--well here's your chance. In the tradition of great American fortunes of the past, I here present a small sample from my compilation of entrepreneurial prospects entitled, "Ventures For Modern Day America Where Luckily For Us Most People Are NitWits...
Given the cloud of highly charged gossip that surrounded Markham from adolescence on (she was expelled from school in Nairobi for trying perhaps "to organize a revolt," and then married at 16), it is surprising that until the present volume, no one had answered such questions in a full-length biography. But although West with the Night was praised when it was first published in 1942, sales were not high, and after a few short stories based on her experiences, Markham gave up writing. Author Mary S. Lovell hotfooted it to Nairobi after reading the republished memoir and found...
About one out of twelve black Americans carries a single gene for sickle-cell anemia. That trait, doctors have long believed, is basically benign, since the blood disorder strikes only when two defective genes are present. But a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine challenges this assumption. In a study of more than 2 million military recruits, doctors at Washington's Armed Forces Institute of Pathology found that sickle-cell carriers run 40 times the normal risk of sudden death when they undergo the rigors of basic training. The danger appears to increase with...