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Events such as the infamous first-year plague, a western-style shootout in the Square, the admissions saga of Gina Grant and the bizarre murder-suicide in Dunster House made for an impressionable first year...

Author: By David L. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: This Is Our Harvard | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

Just one week later, bullets flew through acrowded Harvard Square as an armored car drivertried to choke an attempted heist. The onlyvictims of his gunfire were two of the assailants.But the March 2 shootout made it an eventfulafternoon for passerby...

Author: By David L. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: This Is Our Harvard | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...wake up and all your friends areill, another day your friend is walking throughthe Square and there's a shootout," he says. "Itmade our parents ask, `Where the hell...

Author: By David L. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: This Is Our Harvard | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...elections are won and lost solely in the ectoplasm of television ads. According to this theory, Californians don't follow politics, and the local news media barely cover it--so hiring hot consultants and buying maximum TV time is all that counts. It seemed the primary would be a shootout between Harman, an astute but little-known politician whose campaign is based on equal parts of gender (57% of California Democrats are women) and wealth (her husband, audio-component magnate Sidney Harman, has given millions to her cause), and Checchi, a leveraged-buyout wizard who has already spent $30 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can't Buy their love | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...breakthrough for the U.S. came at "the great pipeline shootout" on April 1 in Almaty, capital of Kazakhstan. More than 200 executives and experts from the region's oil consortiums gathered to present and compare their pet plans. To everyone's surprise, Total, the French oil giant, put forward revised numbers for its preferred option, a north-south pipeline through Iran to the gulf. By these new estimates, the Iran link would cost about $4 billion and would not be operational until 2004. This meant the line through Iran would cost as much and take as long to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rush For Caspian Oil | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

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