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...when Talcott realizes that his father's case isn't quite closed. At the funeral a sinister billionaire confronts him about some mysterious "arrangements" the judge made before his death, of which Talcott knows nothing. A white chess pawn--the judge was a chess fiend--is delivered by an unknown messenger. The priest who delivered Oliver's eulogy turns up dead, his body grotesquely tortured (Carter might want to tell his kids to avert their eyes at this point). As in all good mysteries, the key to the present lies in the past, and to find it, Talcott must delve...
...Hollywood tycoons; in Los Angeles. Wasserman built MCA into an entertainment colossus with a film studio, TV studio, record label, theme parks and theatres. In over fifty years in the business, Wasserman's clients included Bette Davis, James Stewart, John Garfield and Gregory Peck. In 1974 he gave an unknown director called Steven Spielberg a chance to direct his first film: Jaws. An inveterate Democrat, Wasserman raised millions for the Democratic Party's candidates dating from Kennedy to Clinton.(See Eulogy). DIED. RADWAN EL-KASHEF, 50, acclaimed Egyptian film director; in Cairo. El-Kashef's best known film, Date Wine...
...watershed study, which sustained criticism from civil rights activists because they felt it blamed blacks themselves for black poverty, became known as the “Moynihan Report” and threw the relatively unknown government official into the limelight for the first time...
...anxieties, we can allow ourselves to don a new set of costumes, even if only for an hour, an afternoon, a day. In these looser garments we just might be able to reclaim our sense of awe and wonder, our carefree abandon, our willingness to jump blindly into unknown waters below. And, while we can never recapture those people who through death or distance have left us forever, we may, for a fleeting moment, recapture the feelings we shared with them. In this passing instant we may get back some of what we’ve lost...
Just what action Councillor Sullivan plans to take is as yet unknown. He did say that he will confer with Cambridge and University police “very soon.” “I believe it’s squarely up to Harvard officials to provide space. The University’s Western Avenue parking lot behind the Business School is far too distant for student use. Maybe we can make some use of the parking facilities around Cambridge Common by opening this area to students from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m.,” he concluded...