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...became distrenchanted with her love, or hungry for her money, or both. He tried to murder her twice with insulin injections, during two successive Christmas vacations. By May 1981, doctors had declared that Mrs von Bulow's brain had been damaged irreparably, and that she would never waken from her coma...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Partners in Crime | 3/26/1982 | See Source »

...alerted other key Administration officials, including National Security Adviser Richard Allen and White House Counsellor Edwin Meese III. Allen and Meese, who were in Los Angeles with President Ronald Reagan, received the news at 11 p.m. local time, but decided that there was no need at the moment to waken the President. The two aides monitored the news for the next 5½ hours before calling Reagan, in his suite on the same floor of the Century Plaza hotel, at 4:24 a.m. Meese said later, "The President was in charge, and if there had been any action he needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Shootout over the Med | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...conservative. This one he has to think about because you just told him a minute ago that you were a liberal Christian. Finally, "It's impossible as far as I'm concerned. And I don't think I'm intolerant. I think I'm trying to be truthful, to waken the people up, college students and religious people and the like...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: The Vocal Minority: Saving the Government | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

After sleepily walking over its first six flimsy opponents, the Harvard swim team must waken this weekend for the real challenge--its only one of the dual meet season--The Showdown at Princeton...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Crimson Squads Resume Action This Weekend | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...whom I waken must each morn when from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

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