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Although Deaver is the second top-level Reagan official to be indicted on criminal charges,* he has earned a dubious renown for becoming the first former Government official to face charges resulting from an independent counsel's efforts. That distinction has palpable consequences: the indictment means the Federal Government will not reimburse Deaver for his staggering legal costs, now more than $500,000, unless his lawyers sue to recover them in the event that the charges are dismissed...
Graffiti, ranging from phone numbers to drawings, frequently decorate the tunnel walls which intrepid students have left on the walls to mark their descents into the unknown. The obscene drawings and interesting slogans beneath New Quincy House, for instance, have won renown among Harvard tunnel runners. A recent addition--"Quincy House 'Comics' Class of '87"--has been scribbled across one of the walls. And "Nuke New Quincy" appears nearby...
...almost all their pictures, Maurice being a rare exception. The team's reputation was established with their second film, Shakespeare Wallah. The story of a troupe of English actors traveling across India, the film was made on a budget of $80,000, small even by Indian standards. The modest renown established by that film was nearly lost by a subsequent series of almost perversely maladroit efforts, including The Guru, Bombay Talkie and Savages...
Boesky's name popped up again in the ongoing takeover battle between Gillette, of shaving-blade renown, and Revlon Group, the cosmetics conglomerate. Revlon, headed by Raider Ronald Perelman, offered $4.12 billion for Gillette two weeks ago, just hours before the Boesky case broke. Gillette counterattacked last week with a claim in Boston's Federal District Court that charged Perelman with violating insider-trading laws. Gillette's lawyers issued a blizzard of demands for records from Boesky and a host of other Wall Street investment firms. Perelman called the Gillette accusations "totally without merit and self-serving." He denied that...
Though Aurelius Augustinus had won a bit of renown, he would surely be unknown to history were it not for the celebrated September day in A.D. 386 when he seemed to hear a child's singsong voice chanting "Tolle lege, tolle lege" (Take up and read, take up and read). Snatching the Bible, which he had once disdained, he read the first words his eyes fell upon: St. Paul's admonition in Romans 13 to abandon wanton living and "put on the Lord Jesus Christ." Instantly, he later wrote, "a light of certainty pierced my heart and all the shadow...