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...prepared for the unexpected in Memphis. The only certainty of Memphis weatheris that it will be hot in July and August. TheCity has been known to experience tanning weather,snow and highs in the 80s during the same week.Bring both sweatshirts and stores...
...those of us who weren't allowed to stay up until 11:30 on Saturday nights in the early 1980s the Al Franken Decade was a skit on Saturday Night Live. Alan S. Franken '73 declared that the 80s were his decade...
...film series "Black Cinema After Sweetback" recognizes this influence both in its title and in its format. The series began with Sweetback and will be moving to the blaxploitation films of the 70s and to the Black film renaissance of the 80s. Highlights include House Party (directed by Harvard graduate Reginald Hudlin) and several films...
...event on Wall Street in the '80s was more artfully avaricious than the payout of over $250 million in employee bonuses shortly before the collapse of Drexel Burnham Lambert. The bonus bonanza -- which totaled more than twice the amount of the debt on which Drexel defaulted -- helped push the firm over the edge, as it struggled with mounting lawsuits over the dealings of its junk- bond division. Now the reorganized company is suing the recipients of its largesse to recover the loot...
Faced with a trial that could end his career and shred their meal ticket, Tyson's advisers made the fatal mistake of underestimating the opposition. In the mid-'80s, when the young fighter got into trouble, his people would speak to the local police commissioner, give him a few ringside seats for the next bout . . . no more trouble. The Tyson camp may have tried that tactic again, offering Washington $750,000 to withdraw her complaint. That wouldn't happen here -- not in Indianapolis, not with this accuser and not with Gregory Garrison, a smart barrister with a homespun air, whom...