Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bust was carried out with all the speed and precision of a major drug raid. There was nothing sleazy, though, about the locale: Manhattan's pinstriped financial district. On a chilly midmorning last week, a pair of federal agents strode into the gray stone headquarters of the blue-chip Kidder, Peabody investment firm. They headed for the 18th-floor office of Richard Wigton, 52, head of the company's risk-arbitrage and over-the-counter stock-trading departments. As Kidder, Peabody employees looked on in dismay, the officers arrested Wigton, then led the stunned executive away. The charge against Wigton...
...young warrior is asked his name and replies, "Lord Delamere." His parents had named him Lord Delamere. The visitor tears a page out of his notebook and walks 30 yards away and places the paper on the ground, weighed down by a stone. His lordship is asked to demonstrate his accuracy with a spear. Lord Delamere shrugs and stands and hurls his spear, impaling the blank page. The visitor asks to borrow the spear so that he might try. Alas, he does not straighten his arm, as in a javelin throw, but starts the motion somewhere behind his right...
...confronted by an openly hostile contingency at the U.S. embassy. Although this rapid change in tone is initially somewhat disconcerting, the scenes featuring Woods in a Hawaiian shirt and mirrored sunglasses perched atop of a mound of corpses are powerful in their sheer absurdity. Written and directed by Oliver Stone, who recently achieved recognition for Platoon, Salvador offers a telling juxtaposition of what Americans would like to be around the world and what they actually...
...world's only surviving Discologians, I have decided to write a book about my passion, something of a historical novel--a North and South of music, a Saturday Night Fever of books. I had the vision for the book last week when I came home to the newest Rolling Stone. I flipped through it until I came to the sixth page. Then joyous news set my heart thumping: The Bee Gees are reuniting...
...aspecialist in labor law, is the only remaininglawyer on the Corporation, which has traditionallyhad a large number of lawyers among its ranks.Currently, the Corporation also includes twoacademics, Rosovsky and University of Illinoisphysicist Charles P. Slichter '45; twobusinessmen, Gillette Co. Chairman Colman M.Mockler '52 and New York shipping executive RobertG. Stone Jr. '45; and a banker, MacDougall...