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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHRB-FM, 95.3, has secured the contract of a historic and recently controversial opera program, which will become the Harvard station's top priority...
After leaving his brother at the railway station, Peiji fought with the KMT and set about building a career for himself in Chiang Kai-shek's military. He spent two years in cadet school, and by 1960 he was promoted to captain. The same year he got married, but when his Taiwanese-born wife suggested they buy a house, Peiji said no. "At that time we all thought we were going back to China. What point in buying a house in Taiwan?" he says, laughing. "It was not until 1975, when Chiang Kai-shek died, that we changed our views...
...reviving the energy, but finally relinquished to the bored faces by playing their hits--including "Down"--and exiting the building. The only time the show truly got "all mixed up" was afterwards during my battle with the escaping throngs for a seat on the shuttle back to South Station...
...spies gathered with little malice and, if one looked closely, a hint of warmth. Montgomery recalled the early 1950s as the "golden age of human espionage in Berlin." Peter Sichel, a CIA station chief, noted that the more information the spies produced, the more their bosses wanted. "Demand just kept growing," Sichel said. One of the early CIA exploits was Operation Gold, an ingenious tunnel under East Berlin that was used to tap Soviet telephone lines. Unknown to the CIA at the time, however, George Blake, a Russian mole in the British secret service, revealed plans for the tunnel...
About to be busted when a jewel heist goes awry, Miles Logan hides the loot--a humongous diamond--in a construction site. Released from jail two years later, he discovers the finished building is now a police station. To recover the gem, he impersonates a cop. It's not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing as Logan, who, naturally, has a gift for apprehending burglars. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing, so the star is mostly reduced to pulling faces, yelling obscenities and, when all else fails, pointless juking and jiving as he waits...