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...room with Anderson, Jacobsen and Sutherland. Until his release last September, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary, was also with them. The only clothing the captives were given was two pairs of underwear apiece--one for wearing, the other for washing. Each man was allowed to use a toilet only once a day, though a urinal bottle was provided. Apparently fearing a rescue mission by the Syrians if not the Americans, the captors moved Jenco to seven different locations, probably either in the slums of southern Beirut or in the Bekaa Valley. As a further precaution, the jailers never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East End of a Priest's Ordeal | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...morally supple so far into the social and professional stratosphere that is proves not only that life is unfair, it's unreasonable. The concentration of careerist power in this place is so heavy that in certain key seminars you feel like you're present at Louis XIVth's toilet, a court jester competing for the Great One's favor...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Politics of Schmoozing | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...through the blown-out windows onto the grass outside, where they lay screaming and shivering with shock as their parents fought through police lines to reach them. Some 70 people were later hospitalized; at least one child had burns over 50% of his body. Young, rushing back from the toilet, shot School Bandleader Jon Miller, wounding him in the back. Then he ended the madness with a bullet to his head...

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

After finishing Mr. Smith's editorial, I was quite prepared to read some provocative commentary. Unfortunately, I started John Rosenthal's "The T.P. Squeeze." Has Reading Period been so taxing on Mr. Rosenthal's mind that the only topic he could write about was to gripe about Harvard's toilet paper? Surely there are better subjects for Mr. Rosenthal to write on. He, at least, could have addressed the real problem with the toilet paper--its extreme coarseness--rather than relating his little experiences with the various toilet paper holders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Provocative | 5/16/1986 | See Source »

...will be the first to admit that I go to the bathroom too often for my own good, but Harvard's measures seem much too drastic. Next thing you know, they'll be putting in those single sheets of cellophane in their toilet holders like they do at cheap restaurants and gas stations...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: The T.P. Squeeze | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

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