Word: apres
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...Apr. 13, 1972: Bettie brandished a knife and forced Harry and the kids to pray before a portrait of Jesus. "If you take your eyes off this picture," she shouted, "I'll cut your guts out!" Foster reports that she was charged with breach of the peace and confined in Jackson Memorial, a state hospital, for four months. Then Harry took her back home...
...Apr. 19, 1979: Having relocated to Southern California, living in Lawndale in a trailer owned by her neighbors Esther Trevin, 67, and her 77-year-old husband, Bettie unprovokedly attacked Esther with a knife and was subdued by Mr. Trevin, who, after warning Bettie to drop the knife, knocked her out with a crescent wrench. Charged on two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, Bettie was found not guilty by reason of insanity...
...make-up date for the finale of that series. Harvard will await the Big Green in the opening doubleheader of a four-game home-and-home series this weekend. A Crimson sweep today would mathematically eliminate the Bears, who occupied first place in the Rolfe division as recently as Apr. 15, from Ivy League Championship Series (ICS) contention. -The Crimson Staff
...editors: I read Lucy Caldwell’s comment “Goodness Gracious” (Apr. 17) and thought immediately of Mae West’s riposte that “goodness had nothing to do with it.” If Caldwell feels that Christianity is dismissed at Harvard, she might take note of who have become its most visible advocates: Fred Phelps, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Ralph Reed. None are known for promoting Christ’s messages of love, tolerance, and generosity. Care for the poor, the sick, the sinner, and the prisoner...
...editors: You recently published an editorial (“UC, Stick to Your Guns,” Apr. 20) advocating that the Undergraduate Council (UC) not change its policy so as to make Committee on College Life-approved organizations eligible for funding on an event-by-event basis. The editorial’s assertion that student funds should “serve all Harvard students,” is inconsistent with its later approval of funding for “groups that may discriminate in some de facto manner.” Although I do not personally object, when...