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...Prague apartment of Vaclav Havel had been filled with friends welcoming home Czechoslovakia's most famous dissident playwright. Only that morning Havel, 52, had been released from prison after serving half of an eight-month term for inciting antigovernment demonstrations. Most of the ) visitors had left, when the doorbell rang. The erect, sad-eyed man in the hallway seemed like a ghostly apparition, his palms outstretched almost sheepishly and on his face a mysterious but familiar half-smile. The apartment fell silent. Then someone murmured, "Dubcek." Said Alexander Dubcek, hero of 1968's Prague Spring: "I had to come...
...week later, the phone lines in our six-room entry underwent unification. Whenever someone in the entry was called, every telephone rang in synchronized unison. All of us simply had one big phone line. (Our answering machine often took garbled messages for the women upstairs, but only after three respectful rings.) Thankfully, we were cured of this after two weeks...
Around midnight in the midst of a Crimson party last Saturday night, the phone rang in the Managing Editor's office, where a group of editors happened to be gathered. The caller: Joel D. Hornstein '92--the ROTC student who sponsored the council's ROTC resolution. The question: What were the results of The Crimson's unscientific poll of council and student opinions on ROTC? The answer: It's not done yet. In the end, Hornstein voted not to repeal his resolution anyway...
...completion of his junior year, Carl had a D average and stood 145th in a class of 145. But on the basketball court he was a formidable talent, nicknamed "Sco" for his scoring ability. His skill caught the attention of schools nationwide. "My phone rang 24 hours a day," recalls Carl. "College coaches were chasing behind me." In November 1987 Carl signed a letter of intent to attend the University of Nebraska...
...first alarm bell rang in February, when Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth and National League President A. Bartlett Giamatti summoned Rose to New York City for a private conversation on a secret subject. Reporters who knew Rose guessed gambling. Last week Ueberroth acknowledged that his office was conducting an ongoing investigation into "serious allegations" after Ron Peters and Alan Statman, a saloon-keeping bookie and his lawyer, claimed they had been cooperating with the commissioner's office. They offered to expand on their testimony for a fee to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both publications demurred. But the story began...