Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night, is the most marketable skill we could ever have. And Harvard teaches it to us better than anywhere else. All through the beauty of the New England autumn, we know we never have to suffer through Lipsey & Steiner or "The Origins of American Politics." Like a safe harbor off on the horizon, reading period beckons us, inviting us to sleep through that stultifying section, ignore that optional problem set, leave our textbooks undisturbed in the Coop bag. When January comes, Macintoshes will glow for 99 hours straight and coffee will flow all night, but it is a small price...
...hamburger makers know: the public likes consistency. A Ludlum novel reads like a Ludlum novel, just as a Big Mac tastes like a Big Mac. The Bourne Supremacy is doubly familiar. The hairy-chested prose ("No man was a match for him; no eyes, no throat, no groin safe from an assault, swift and agonizing") and the conspiratorial plotting are stock Ludlum. So is the hero, Jason Bourne. Readers of The Bourne Identity (1980) will recognize him as the cover name for David Webb, the American Orientalist who was used to lure Carlos, the international terrorist known as the Jackal...
...armed forces were undergoing and the hatred that this process was engendering. Of the assassination, Colonel Gregorio Honosan says today, "From a military viewpoint, it is technically impossible to get inside a cordon of 2,000 men, so this reinforced our belief that nobody in government could be safe...
...this house, the better." They asked me, "Where do you think you should stay?" I said at the Carmelite monastery. I got to the monastery, which was like The Sound of Music, and these nuns welcomed me. They said, "Cory, you will be very safe here, because they will have to kill all of us before they do anything to you." I slept very well, considering that they had no mattress...
...seek Duvalier's return from France. Since the two countries have no extradition treaty, the move was seen in Haiti as a face-saving gesture by a regime increasingly regarded as too sympathetic to Duvalier cronies. There was widespread outrage when it was disclosed that the council had given safe passage to Brazil to Colonel Albert Pierre, head of Baby Doc's feared political police and a man said to enjoy taking a personal role in torture. Days later, an angry mob at the Port-au-Prince airport forcibly prevented retired Duvalier Secret Police Chief Luc Desyr from boarding...