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...been in jail since 1976 on a murder conviction. Though cleared of that charge in 1983, he was being held for possible extradition to Thailand to face a death sentence for allegedly drugging, robbing and killing several Western tourists. By week's end Indian police had uncovered no trace of the wily crook...
...another's wives. Steam baths, massages, the camaraderie of the locker room. They could shoot pigeons and get drunk, and now and then they could pretend to have one of their flunkies taken out and shot. Or better yet, the victim could just vanish, without explanation, without a trace. The good old days...
...some particles of ink from the map were found to be titanium-based. This meant, experts said, that the ink was of 20th century vintage and the map a fraud. But the Davis team, using their cyclotron technique, proved the ink was carbon based, with titanium present only in trace amounts. Says Cahill: "We feel that the question of the map's authenticity is once again open...
Donald Fleming's courses on American intellectual history were also supposed to be offered this year, according to last year's course catalogue. This year, they are in brackets. And "The Peopling of America" has disappeared from the catalogue without a trace. Now, is it "sensationalism" to call History Department offerings unpredictable...
...fact that AIA grew out of a media watch-dog organization casts suspicion on its intentions. AIA was founded to trace the origin of a supposed liberal bias in education using the same methods as its media-watching parent organization. Malcolm Lawrence, president of AIA, draws the parallel between media and education: "The classroom can be compared to a newspaper. The professor is the source of information or service for which the student pays...