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...nearby phone booth and call one. Instead, between 9:30 and 10 o'clock that night, Stuart checked into Room 231 of the Sheraton-Tara in Braintree, a Boston suburb. The clerk remembers that he had no luggage, used a credit card and asked for a 4:30 a.m. wake-up call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presumed Innocent: Charles Stuart | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

Those may have been his last words. He never went back to the store. Sometime after his wake-up call, he left the hotel, drove ten miles to the Tobin Bridge in his new Nissan Maxima and jumped. When police fished him out of the water, he was dressed in blue jeans and a parka, suggesting that he may have picked up a change of clothes after leaving the convenience store. Stuart left a brief note on the passenger seat of his car that said, "I love my family . . . the last four months have been real hell . . . all the allegations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presumed Innocent: Charles Stuart | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...Crimson, however, received a wake-up call and scored five goals, its best final-period output of the season...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: A Bedtime Story With Harvard as Hero | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

...from gather intelligence to launch missiles -- had been compromised. But the event raised disturbing questions. "It shouldn't be so easy," says Lawrence Rogers, head of Princeton's Office of Computing and Information Technology. Harold Highland, editor of Computers & Security magazine, sees a useful lesson. "This attack is a wake-up call to all operators and users of computer networks," he says. In an interview with the Times, Robert Morris Sr. agreed: "It is likely to make people more careful and more attentive to vulnerabilities in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Kid Put Us Out of Action | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

What may have been the biggest surprise of the mission's first three days was a bracing wake-up call recorded by comedian Robin Williams, patterned after the tag line of his movie Good Morning, Vietnam. At 5:30 a.m. Friday, the astronauts heard blaring from a cabin loudspeaker: "Gooooood Morning, Discovery! Rise and shine. Time to start doing that shuttle shuffle. Hey! Here's a little song coming from the billions of us to the five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Magic Is Back! | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

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