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...another like her . . . and there never will be." He compared her to a nightingale, but the impresario who discovered Edith Giovanna Gassion at 19, singing on the corner of a Paris avenue, had bestowed a more fitting name: Piaf, which in the city's argot of the 1930s meant sparrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Thirty Years Dead, the Sparrow Lives | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

Both players are questionable for the tournament and goalie Mike Sparrow, who is 0-7 on the season, may be left the unseemly task of warding off BU's swarming attack, led by Hobey Baker candidate David Sacco...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rivalry Is Old, But BU Has Edge | 1/29/1993 | See Source »

...Navy's streak of misfortune continues. A Sea Sparrow missile fired off the aircraft carrier Saratoga slammed into the bridge of a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea, killing five sailors including the ship's captain. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank Kelso could offer no explanation for the accident, but preliminary indications were that human error was to blame. The incident, which occurred during NATO joint maneuvers, is being investigated by a team of three senior U.S. admirals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friendly Fire | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

What started out as a blind faith that God heeded the fall of the sparrow (even if He couldn't stop it from accelerating downwards at -9.8 meters per second squared) turned into an exploration of my religious heritage that soon became the most important legacy of my Harvard experience to date...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: One `First Year' Searches for God at Harvard | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...them most. Those conversations led him to recognize, he says, "that the good people far outnumbered the bad." Meanwhile, he organized a volunteer community cleanup, which filled 30 Dumpsters with litter; arranged federal funding for floral plantings; and even held a contest to choose a name for the neighborhood: Sparrow Estates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to The Beat | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

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