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...Soviet woman's tale of woe directly contradicts a confession she made last June implicating Miller in a plot to pass FBI documents to the Soviets in exchange for promises of $65,000. Ogorodnikova, 36, is serving an 18-year sentence for espionage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Case of the Lovelorn Spy | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

Following this tale of woe came another piece which showed the depth of Harvard's commitment to education. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence, it seems, has finally realized the negative effects of long-term faculty raiding and has proposed bettering the chance junior faculty members have of receiving tenure (he could have looked at the Yankees; how many World Series have they won without a farm system, just throwing money at free agents?). While it shouldn't be hard to imporve junior members' chances--you can't do worse than zero--he has proposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Money Woes | 4/15/1986 | See Source »

...enough when verging on implosion, woe betide the listener once he gets his confidence and begins sharing his interests with the audiences. "The most fascinating thing," he says with a disconcerting zeal, "is that the larvae don't actually eat the dung, but absorb it through a sticky, permeable membrane located here...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Professing Some Hatred | 3/11/1986 | See Source »

...from murder accusation in Act I. Nicholas 'Davis also plays three roles but succeeds most at Sir John Bushy, a flaky favorite of Richard who flits about with a brightly colored silk scarf. Kristin Gasser is superb as the forlorn and lonely Queen to Richard who suffers from "nameless woe." Gasser is particularly effective in her final departure scenes with Richard. Jennifer Burton, Diane Paulus and Caroline Bicks occasionally succumb to overacting and have yet to master the art of walking like men, but are strong characters overall...

Author: By M. ELISABETH Bentel, | Title: Groundling Room Only | 12/13/1985 | See Source »

...Bragg takes a bit of getting used to. He plays an unaccompanied electric guitar and sings as if he has a pound of cotton jammed in each nostril. After the ear has become accustomed, though, this collection of previously released material, a plethora of political and personal tales of woe, really hits home. "A New England" achieves both the humor and sadness of early Dylan. After all, if the world could grow to love a nasally hick from Hibbing, Minnesota, then why not a congested Cockney from an English mining town...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Music Worth Unwrapping | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

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