Word: rings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week was a nine-ring circus of death and despair. After Sunday's raid came an intensive artillery barrage by Syrian-backed Druze militiamen, resulting in the death of eight U.S. Marines near Beirut International Airport. In Beirut itself, a car bomb exploded in a crowded street, killing 14 people. Nobody was apprehended, and as usual, the list of suspects was endless. Next day a terrorist bomb exploded on a crowded bus in Jerusalem, killing five Israelis and wounding 45 others. For this senseless slaughter, two warring branches of the Palestine Liberation Organization, including the mainstream group led by Chairman...
...Pinter's Other Places) and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (where Hall directed Orfeo et Eurydice). But last November he staged Verdi's Macbeth at New York City's Metropolitan Opera to a gang of mostly abusive reviews. Then this summer Hall premiered his production of The Ring of the Nibelung at Bayreuth, and things were no sunnier there. The work opened to bad reviews and an audience that sounded, as one reviewer wrote, "like hundreds of savage wolves baying for blood...
...take victory or defeat casually, but seniors were beginning to practice their lines for the years that would follow graduation. Fred Anscombe, Yale '84, did not seem truly disheartened, but he managed a sneer ("The Harvard guys I know are all creampuffs") that had almost the right ring to it. A Manhattan bank executive, Yale '56, did not have to search for emotion. After The Game, looking as woeful as if Brazil had defaulted on its notes, he said, "It took me years to get over being really depressed when Yale lost." His voice broke for a moment...
First, it is unquestionably immoral to invest in corporations that support an inherently evil system--even with the justification that one intends to "influence change" in that system. With "moral" reasoning that would render such an action permissible, what is to prevent someone from investing in a drug ring, expressing a desire to influence drug dealers to decrease sales to young children or to cut down on drug-related murder...
...First Data Resources investigators last week approached the U.S. Attorney in Boston to discuss the case and ask that handwritting samples of people associated with the New Hampshire card ring be subpoenaed D'Amico said they want to compare the handwriting with signatures on forged receipts associated with cards stolen from Harvard...