Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's nothing like a cold and dreary trip to New Haven to start off the new semester. Especially if you could be moments away from giving birth...
...Costin Scalise is now nine months pregnant with her first child, with expected delivery any day. Although some might be inclined to take a few days off for such an occasion, Costin Scalise made last night's trip with her team, watching it extend its dominance over the rest of the Ivies to a period of nearly three years...
...Manigat is finally declared the winner, he will be sworn in as President on Feb. 7. For Haiti's junta, meanwhile, it was business as usual. Police arrested Opposition Leader Louis Dejoie at Port-au-Prince airport as he returned from criticizing the government on a trip abroad and charged him with fomenting civil war. Dejoie was released two days later after hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the National Penitentiary, where he was being held...
Historical novelty is a widespread preoccupation of mystery writers, whether to vary their stories or display newly found erudition or simply to write off a vacation trip on their tax returns. Ellis Peters offers her 14th chronicle of Brother Cadfael, a resolutely logical monk who is a 12th century forerunner of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown, in The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Mysterious Press; 224 pages; $15.95). Peters' narratives suffer from cuteness and rarely make medieval people come alive as convincingly as, say, the ancient Greeks and Persians in the novels of Mary Renault. But she weaves a plot ably...
...Nazi Germany, the family first ran afoul of the law when Singer pulled his children from school to shield them from the influence of drugs and racial integration. His continued defiance led in 1979 to a siege that ended when police rushed Singer while he was on a trip to his mailbox. He was shot in the back after pulling a pistol...