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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students were informed of Price's death via e-mail and when they arrived at his office Monday. "I was supposed to see him at 2 o'clock today, and his son told me. It was quite a shock," said Brown, who is a Crimson editor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government Professor Price Dies After Falling | 12/10/1996 | See Source »

Woody Allen is notoriously reluctant to reveal much about his movies in advance, but the actors who signed on for Everyone Says I Love You were in for an especially rude shock. A couple of weeks after being cast, they got a call from music arranger Dick Hyman asking if he could send over their songs. Their what? Allen had neglected to tell them that they had enlisted for a musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ALL SINGING, ALL WOODY | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...arraignment, Erdohan told the judge that her detainers stripped her naked, then proceeded to sexually assault her and administer electric shock treatment...

Author: By Alex Carter, | Title: Amnesty to Protest Turkish Violations | 12/7/1996 | See Source »

...macabre underground dungeon in a home of the accused ringleader, Marc Dutroux, near the southern city of Charleroi. Police dug up the bodies of four other girls, ages 8 to 19, missing for more than a year. The tragedy transfixed Belgium, and national TV broadcast their funerals live. Shock then turned to outrage when it was disclosed that Dutroux was a convicted kidnapper-rapist, released early from prison against prosecutors' advice. Worse, vital information about the original abductions was withheld by competing investigators, and Dutroux allegedly had high-level protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NIGHTMARE GOES ON | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...game was over and the Crimson was suddenly dead. Players and fans alike stood in shock trying to comprehend how Harvard could have lost a marathon game they thoroughly dominated. The scoreboard read 2-1, but might have easily been 7-1 in favor of the loser...

Author: By Bo Williams, | Title: UMass Upsets Women's Soccer | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

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