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Throw in Yohe's disappointing 2-for-7, two-fumble, two-sack performance, and you've got the makings of a quarterback controversy. Landau, you may remember, started the season with an encouraging performance against Columbia, but was then felled in the Crusader game...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: A Potential Quarterback Controversy Grows in Cambridge | 10/28/1986 | See Source »

...privately owned company was formed out of Sack Theaters and new acquisitions by investors, the source said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Theater Company May Buy Janus and Harvard Square Theaters | 10/28/1986 | See Source »

...there for quaintness). She pulled branches down to snag the best apples. She picked them off the ground. She tossed them at the two of us who weren't quite as interested in apples as she. But we caught them and added them to the bulging paper sack we had picked up from the owner of the orchard...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: An Autumnal Adventure: Foliage in Vermont | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

...Santos government committing an estimated 80% of its budget to military needs, the economy has been thrown into chaos. These days a dollar will buy more than 1,500 kwanza on the black market, or 50 times as much as at the official exchange rate. At bank rates, a sack of potatoes costs $100. Some 750,000 squatters jam the garbage-filled streets of Luanda, where many scrounge through trash cans for food and live in shacks. Even a confidential Soviet report on the capital acknowledged its "sense of hopelessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola Dancing to a Tin Drummer | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...arrested along with the couple but survived, told the court that police threw Jean-Jacques into the trunk of their automobile for the drive to headquarters, where Desyr took part in the interrogation. In a darkened cell, Alix Ambroise said, he later heard what sounded like a "sack of coconuts" being dumped onto the floor. It was the broken body of his cousin, near death as a result of police beatings. Emmanuel Ambroise called Desyr and other Duvalier followers "sadistic animals who were satisfying their instincts in executing Duvalier's orders." After less than an hour's deliberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti View Inside a Killing Machine | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

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