Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story modernistic headquarters of the Goldman, Sachs investment firm, another cops-and-robbers drama was played out. Federal agents quietly entered the 29th-floor office of Robert Freeman, 44, head of the company's arbitrage department. Freeman was arrested and escorted from the building. Driven across town to Manhattan's federal court building, the handcuffed executive joined another distinguished Wall Streeter who had been arrested the night before. Timothy Tabor, 33, a former Kidder, Peabody investment banker and subsequent Merrill Lynch executive, had been picked up at his Upper East Side apartment. The charge against both men: conspiracy to commit...
Successes do occur, says Middlebury's Dalton. "There are miracle workers out there doing incredible things." Freed of paperwork and unrelated duties, and with the backing of their principals, these counselors are able to focus students' attention early. Katahdin High School is in the depressed rural town of Sherman Station in northeastern Maine. The one counselor for the school's 250 students, Wayne Miller, is a key member of the faculty. He starts seeing freshmen "right off the bat" to get them thinking about careers, then eventually about how college might expand their opportunities. "Our kids are extraordinarily modest," says...
...time to begin the six-hour drive from Nairobi to Moses' enk'ang (small village) in the Loita Hills. The Land Cruiser travels for three hours over paved road to the dusty frontier town of Narok, then follows a rutted washboard road across an empty and chokingly dusty plain until it shifts into four-wheel drive and begins the slow climb up into the hills. It is lovely in the hills. They look somewhat like the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico. Part of their beauty is their pristine remoteness. One rarely encounters a white man there...
Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is March 3 this year, so mark your calendars. New Orleans, the ultimate party town, starts celebrating about two weeks early. The exclusive balls have long been out, but it's not too late to join in the drinking and gallivanting that goes on every night in the French Quarter...
Driving to the sleepy Honduran market town of Las Trojes, the visitor travels along a dirt track that hugs the Nicaraguan border. The boundary is no more than a hundred yards away in most places, marked by three strands of barbed wire clinging to rotting posts hidden in chest-high grass. At a point where the road elbows its way out of forested hills and runs through open country, a Honduran soldier on patrol warns, "The Sandinistas will shoot at anybody." No wonder. Thousands of U.S.-backed contras have infiltrated that barbed-wire border to set up a base camp...