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Outside of Massachusetts Hall, for instance, Bok's administration has spent at least $50,000 in landscaping and construction of a guard house with gingerbread trim. And across the campus, Harvard officials are planning to sink nearly $500 million into building renovations on campus...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Learning How to Read, Write and Rewrite | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) said Rehnquist "had everything but the kitchen sink thrown at him" yet still "came out of the hearings stronger than when he went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Committee Recommends Justices | 8/15/1986 | See Source »

...police surrounded the school and townspeople scrambled to raise ransom money, Doris tried to comfort the scared and tired children by bringing in library books, crayons and a television set. Some youngsters wept; a few vomited into the classroom sink. After a 2 1/2-hour standoff, White left to go to the bathroom, handing his wife, who was standing in the center of the room, two bottles of gasoline wired to a battery and manual trigger. When her hand apparently slipped on the trigger, she set off the crude bomb. The blast killed her instantly. It seared young faces with flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wyoming Horror: A fiery schoolhouse bomb | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Then, as your classmates plod off again to the library, feeling all the vacuous redundance that accompanies a three day drive across the rolling obscurity of a midwestern prairie, you sink back, relishing the heady exhaustion a mountaineer feels after returning home from an assault on Everest...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: The Right Stuff | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...shame that George Harrison's Handmade Films, which had become a trademark for quality silliness like Time Bandits or the darker Brazil, should sink to almost pre-Vaudevillian gags in Water. Then again, when the audience is laughing out loud, we often forget to hang on to the story line...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Drinks, Anyone? | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

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