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...Josia Thugwane, 25, South Africa A hero's welcome turned into a nightmare for the marathoner and poor mine-maintenance worker when he ran straight into death threats from local thugs as a result of his new fame and presumed fortune. Thugwane has moved into a protected house on the mine property and travels with bodyguards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 11, 1996 | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

Since the incorporation of the city of Boston in 1822, fourteen of the thirty-one mayors have been Harvard graduates. They were: John Phillips 1788, Josia Quincy 1790, Harrison Gray Otis 1783, Theodore Lyman 1810, Samuel Atkins Eliot '17, Jonathan Chapman '25, Martin Brimmer '14, John Prescott Bigelow '15, Josiah Quincy, Jr., '21, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff '31, Frederick O. Prince '36, Samuel A. Green '51, Nathan Matthews, Jr., '75, and Josiah Quincy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Governors of Massachusetts and Mayors of Boston | 1/29/1900 | See Source »

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