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...Aarti Kapoor ’07, who came from New York for two days to watch The Game. Alumni said the game has evolved over the years. “The biggest difference is Harvard has won it more often in recent years,” says Paul E. Zilk ’79, who had recently returned from Paris, at the alumni luncheon held at Gordon Indoor Track and Field. “Every time we win the Ivy championship, it’s exciting.” Many grads admitted, however, that this year?...

Author: By Stephanie M Bucklin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alums, both recent and not, gather to watch 125th Harvard-Yale Faceoff | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...with the P.L.O. in recent years. In addition, the tactic of shooting up an airport area that anyone can enter without going through personal and baggage screening troubled officials who supervise airport security. "We can move passenger check-ins further away from airports," said Vienna's Lord Mayor Helmut Zilk. "But we can't keep them secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Ten Minutes of Horror | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, lost two fingers and a thumb when a letter bomb exploded as he opened it at his home. Zilk was the most prominent victim of a wave of 10 letter bombings that has injured five people in Austria since Dec. 3. Police arrested two right-wing extremists they believe are responsible for the attacks. All the bombs were accompanied by notes signed Count Rudiger von Starhemberg, a reference to the Viennese hero who directed the city's resistance to Ottoman armies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week December 5-11 | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

After such a long and bitter dispute, the climax was no surprise. American Conductor Lorin Maazel abruptly abrogated his contract as director of the Vienna State Opera and resigned effective Sept. 1. Said Austrian Minister of Education and Art Helmut Zilk, who oversees the opera company and had clashed repeatedly with Maazel during the conductor's 1½-year tenure: "I don't want to say anything bad about him, but he has no manners and is a megalomaniac." Observed Maazel: "Every three weeks we have another unprofessional statement from a minister who only goes to football games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Round and Round They Go | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...Zilk beat off the astounding animal. It scurried away, crossed the street, leaped at Lois Miller, 4, who was playing in her family's front yard. Lois screamed so loudly that neighbors came running from a block away. She tripped and fell. The mad rodent was savagely biting her scalp, her hands, her arms. When she got up it still clung to her by its teeth, embedded deep in her flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Mad Squirrel | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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