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Boston College’s Katie Quaglia continued the Eagle attack as she shot a ball from the middle that sailed into the upper right corner of the net, giving Boston College the early 1-0 lead halfway into the first period...

Author: By Vanda R. Gyuris, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Dashed By Late BC Push | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...series of FCC hearings earlier this year, a parade of city officials and consumers charged that local cable systems (which in nearly all cases are the sole providers of cable for their areas) have been acting like arrogant monopolies. Deregulation has "created a monster on the loose," said Edward Quaglia, mayor of Herrin, Ill., where cable rates have risen 125% since 1986. Three months ago, New York became the first state to pass consumer-protection legislation aimed at penalizing cable abuses. And last week the New York City board of estimate, in a preliminary vote, refused to renew the Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cable's Fuzzy Image | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...Artiglio II (the Sorima Co. of Genoa) will divide whatever comes up from the Egypt. Speaking for Lloyd's, Sir Percy assured the Italians that the French libeling of the Artiglio IPs gold cargo was but a legal incident which would not interrupt further work or profit. To Commander Quaglia, the Italian Minister of Communications Costanzo Ciano dashed a wireless message: "Warmest congratulations from Premier Mussolini to yourself and all the crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fortune from Neptune | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...mucky deck carried about $200,000 in gold coin and bullion. Next day they clawed another quarter of a million from the Egypt; the third day enough to make $875,000 old, and one blackened silver ingot. More gold remained; and under the gold, stacks of silver. Commander Quaglia refreshed his men with champagne, and scurried for England. For the French were after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fortune from Neptune | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Plymouth Harbor Sir Percy Graham Mackinnon of Lloyd's boarded the Artiglio II with the customs agents. Commander Quaglia was sitting in a deck chair under a huge sun umbrella. On their knees at his feet were two ship captains?one an Englishman, one an Italian?washing sovereigns in a basin, counting and bagging them. The ecstatic crew galloped at their jobs, contemptuously trampling and scattering bundles of rupee notes on the after deck. Commander Quaglia saluted his visitors. One of the customs men showed Commander Quaglia an official document: "Sorry, sir. A warrant for the arrest of the gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fortune from Neptune | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

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