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...House in Malta; employees who were questioned indicated it had been bought by Abdel Basset. Scouring Malta, investigators also found a diary kept by Fhimah, who had been a station manager there for Libyan Arab Airlines, with a revelatory entry: "Abdel Basset is coming from Zurich . . . Take taggs ((sic)) from Air Malta." The apparent meaning: Fhimah used his access to airport facilities to steal Air Malta baggage tags. The end of the story, as spelled out in the indictments: sometime between 8:15 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. on Dec. 21, 1988, Fhimah and Bassett tagged the bag containing...
Drivers on the Tri-State Tollway just southwest of Chicago were startled last week by a billboard plugging the Afro Country Club, "where only the ball is white." They were even more startled the next day, after overnight vandals wrote NIGER (sic) and K.K.K. and daubed a swastika on the sign. Similar racist graffiti were sprayed on road signs in the town of Justice, the racially mixed bedroom community of 11,500 where the billboard was located...
...monopoly on inane, unfair generalizations. A week after Webb mouthed off to The Crimson, son, Adams House resident Tanya S.J. Selvaratnam '92 had this to say about the increased diversity brought about by non-ordered housing choice: "We are soon to be surrounded by racists, bigots and homophobics [sic], just like they have in Winthrop and Kirkland House." Her hearty welcome to non-Leftist Adamsians: "We know where we want to live, and it's not with...
...private parts some poor suspecting fat load is going to take this Saturday by your huge and erect penis." The sheet described female party guests as "a bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter" and promised "an opportunity to slice into one of these meaty but grateful heffers [sic] with ease...
...environs of Harvard's campus are sprinkled with reminder's [sic] from the school's past--each dorm, library, church, and statue has a story all its own. With the quick pace of student life at Harvard, we are constantly surrounded by this history and yet we remain quite oblivious to it. Of course, to many, the messages from Harvard's past are anachronisms in modern life--mere tributes to dead white men--such as the words of Emerson on the hall bearing his name, "What is man that thou art mindful...