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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every kind, this trial must be tried," the jury and their powerful voices are easily swayed by the truthful testimony and trim ankles of the plaintiff. Like the female chorus of would-be brides(maids), the male chorus is a mighty foursome of harmony and ham. As the usher, Thomas Munro is up to the task of keeping them and his own monumental pronouncements in line...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: The Trial of Sir Arthur's Century | 10/5/1995 | See Source »

...father was a plumber, his mother an usher in a Moscow theater. He was an aircraft-design engineer in 1944, when Stalin ordered Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov to start recruiting technicians rather than intellectuals and independent thinkers to staff the U.S.S.R.'s postwar diplomatic corps. From such implausible roots, Anatoly Dobrynin rose to become ambassador to the U.S. for five Soviet leaders and interlocutor for six U.S. Presidents--Kennedy to Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: COLD WAR CONFIDENTIAL | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...terrorist-driven; and the California way, which might be called technology-jinxed. In New York City last Monday, the three big area airports briefly ceased business. The cause was a bomb threat to the obscure yet vital New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), where 200 air-traffic controllers usher planes through a 150-mile radius around New York City. "There was reason to believe the caller had knowledge of the building and how it worked," says Phil Barbarello, head of the local traffic controllers' union. So the control center evacuated, and for 75 minutes no planes landed: tens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OF FRIGHTS AND FLIGHTS | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

When McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis '68 takes the helm as dean of the College July 1, he will usher in a new era at Harvard...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: New Dean of the College Will Focus on Public Service Dean | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

Campbell worshipped and served as an usher atHarvard's Memorial Church until the minister, Rev.Peter J. Gomes, announced he was gay in Novemberof his first-year. "I don't consider MemorialChurch a Church at all," he says. "I find it hardto believe a homosexual can be minister andPlummer professor of Christian morals...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Shooting To the Right | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

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