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...expect the Israeli leader not to be upset is unrealistic. He woke up to television interviews with Arab leaders already responding to the president's call. The Administration's action was an unwarranted slap in the face...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Empty Chairs at Empty Tables | 12/6/1991 | See Source »

...Fuchida woke at 5 a.m. As he told American military historian Gordon Prange, he put on red underwear and a red shirt so that if he was wounded, his men would not be distracted by the sight of his blood. At breakfast, one of his lieutenants said, "Honolulu sleeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

Living closer to the clouds means seeing the world from a different perspective. "I woke up my first morning here and I saw an airplane," says Wong's roomate, Joseph G. Vavpetic '92. "Then there was a seagull flying by my window...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Cult Rooms | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...size 18 shoe. "Great lips -- fit perfectly with mine," drools one of three women who went on a date with Nico. Says another: "If he had kissed my neck, I would've lost control." For Darren, however, the postdate comments run from "He looked like he just woke up" to a grumbly "He paid the check, I left the tip." And when the women are asked which of the two is more likely to fall asleep after sex, guess whom they pick? Sorry, Darren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunks And Cheese Balls | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

...conga drums stopped rumbling at about 4:20 a.m. on July 4, with five or six hard hand cracks, then a great, cavernous quiet. A visitor, sweaty in a winter sleeping bag, half-woke in his tent, wadded what turned out to be a loaf of six-grain bread under his head as a pillow and eased back to sleep. As he did, the drums started again, more softly: chunka-chunka-CHUNKA-chunka. They stopped for good an hour later, just before full light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over The Rainbow | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

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