Word: von
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dershowitz--a die-hard Celtics fan who had never missed a Celtics playoff game--was in the midst of defending Danish socialite Claus Von Bulow against murder charges while last year's Celtics-Sixers semi-final playoff series was being played. The jury was out and was expected to return at any moment when the players took the floor for the sixth and final game...
...have made millions of dollars' worth of secret political contributions. Former Economics Ministers Otto Lambsdorff and Hans Friderichs are currently facing charges about favorable tax credits made available to Flick. These were allegedly given in exchange for Flick's donations to political parties. A senior company manager, Eberhard von Brauchitsch, has also been implicated in the affair...
...year after Constantine Costes '88 turned in his essay on "Computers and Chaos," it has won him over $50 in the form of the F. Skiddy Von State Award...
...addition to a monetary prize, Costes will receive a book and along with his Expository writing teacher, John De Cuevas, has been invited to lunch with Von Stade and Marius...
Last summer the girl from Portsmouth, Ohio, sang for the Pope in Rome. It was a performance of Mozart's "Coronation" Mass conducted by Herbert von Karajan. "We were in the apse of St. Peter's," she recalls. "The altar is off to our right and a little in front of us. After everyone is in place, the procession begins, and John Paul II is at the end, in full vestments. It's hard to speak of it as a musical occasion. It was a moment in life that one treasures. Oh, it was great to be there...