Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edward A. Gianetti, an investigator for Cambridge-based First Data Resources, said the detectives had identified two different groups using credit cards stolen on campus and would turn their evidence over to U.S. postal inspectors on Friday...
...unable to put words into an order that would constitute a publishable poem. As his rueful ex-wife notes, "Gowan always maintained that what he hated most about writing was the paperwork." So from campus to campus he goes, supporting himself on charm, Celtic invective and waiters' tips stolen from restaurant tables...
...PLAY. No software library would be complete without a finger-twitching arcade game, and one of this season's bestsellers is Broderbund's Lode Runner, a climbing, jumping, chase adventure. The player controls a realistically animated galactic commando, who must recover a fortune in stolen gold before he is nabbed by a gang of bare-chested imperial guards. The program also lets creative gamesters design their own underground labyrinths. For Apple, Atari and Commodore computers...
...wide-eyed tinker, plies his trade in the hills of Spain until he learns of a reward for anyone who can exorcise the ghost from a forbidding castle. The sprite can overwhelm anything except innocence, and Esteban not only survives but prevails. Together, he and the ghost recover some stolen treasure, a feat that lands one in paradise and the other on the Iberian version of Easy Street. Dirk Zimmer's illustrations have the amiable quality of cartoons; the only people likely to be disturbed by this refreshing tale are those who wonder where they mislaid their sense...
...Johnny can't read, why is he a college president? Perhaps reporters for U.S. News and World Report should have had them point at photographs of prominent colleges instead. A more disturbing thought: Just one day after this newspaper publicized the survey results, $1500 worth of rare jewelry was stolen from the Harvard Semitic Museum. That's just too much of a coincidence...