Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REGARDLESS OF HOW the sordid saga of Dr. Arif Hussain resolves itself, the formerly Harvard-affiliated anaesthesiologist will probably never escape the label "RAPE DOC" which has so often this year decorated the pages of the Herald American in 60 point type. Hussain has made sensational copy throughout New England and the nation: the snappily dressed young intern, attractive wife and infant son in low, cheerfully denies guilt in three separate rape cases, while his flamboyant defense attorney challenges characters and motives of alleged victims...
...This saga of science is a compelling story, and the brilliant, arrogant Oppenheimer is a compelling character-a tragic symbol of one of the most triumphant yet melancholy periods in U.S. history. He would have made an ideal subject for an American TV network, but it is just as well that none of them has told his story, for it is hard to find much fault with this seven-part series from...
Dugger takes the Johnson saga from the great-great-grandfather who did not fight at the Alamo as Johnson once boasted, through Grandfather Sam E. Johnson, who did not found Johnson City, Texas, as L.B.J. once claimed, to Father Sam Jr., a progressive state legislator who never realized his ambition of becoming a Congressman. Young Lyndon learned the art of the possible by tagging along as his dad cut deals and pulled strings, and when the older man turned to drink, Lyndon's iron-minded mother lashed the boy onward. She had him, at age four, reciting the Preamble...
...Harvard men's lacrosse team entered another chapter to the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde saga that it calls the 1982 season. Saturday afternoon, the laxmen eked out a 12-11 victory over tenth-ranked Adelphi at Garden City High School on Long Island in the featured event of the school's Lacrosse...
...latest story raises the abiding Watergate question: What did we already know, and when did we know it? Hersh, 45, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his expose of the My Lai massacre in Viet Nam, adds new details to the saga, based on interviews and previously unpublished information gathered by the Watergate special prosecutor's office. But most of the ground has been well turned before. Indeed, it was first explored by Hersh who, while a reporter with the New York Times, in 1973 revealed the extent of Kissinger's role in the wiretappings...