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...couldn't decide between Michigan Notre Dame, UCLA and College? Were your SAT scores too high? Or was it the allure of Cambridge and the nation's oldest university too much...
...Like), business derring-do (Dr. Geiger's Little Magic Box) and side-splitting Humor in Uniform. As for family life, the Saturday Evening Post observed it only through a flattering scrim, with its Norman Rockwell portraits of boys gone fishin' and short stories such as "The Skipper Was a Dame (No one wanted to charter a boat that had a lady captain. What Helen needed was a man).'' In this well-ordered world, mothers stayed home and fathers, who smoked Lucky Strikes, worked and worried about their daughters going off on dates and about the menace of Red China...
Cole, 39, owns a set of credentials that have aided him in reporting on Oklahoma City and its aftermath. A Notre Dame graduate, he went on to earn a law degree at UCLA. But the lure of journalism, which he had felt as a teenager, reasserted itself, and he took a job 10 years ago at the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal as a staff writer. Stints at Business Week and Bloomberg's Business News followed before he joined Time in 1992 as a correspondent in the Los Angeles bureau...
...deadly bombing of a Paris subway train during rush hour Tuesday -- an attack that claimed seven lives and left 84 people injured. The bomb, triggered by a timer, exploded at 5:30 p.m. as the train pulled into the Saint-Michel station along the Seine River near Notre Dame cathedral.No group has claimed responsibility for the incidentbut authorities have several theories, reports TIME's William Rademaekers. "The French have many enemies," he explains. Algerian militants, Bosnian Serbs and extremist antinuclear groups -- all have motives. The Algerian Armed Islamic Group (AIG) has a longstanding threat of retaliation after the French stormed...
Frenchanti-terrorisminvestigators are examining the scene of a rush-hour explosion that killed four people and injured about 60 at a Paris underground station near the Notre Dame Cathedral. Prime Minister Alain Juppe, at the station, said it was uncertain whether the blast came from a bomb, "but the presumptions are very strong." Some witnesses reported the strong smell of gunpowder after the explosion. Several victims, faces covered with blood, were carried off in stretchers; a nearby restaurant was turned into a rescue base to treat minor injuries. "I saw six or seven people who were wounded; bleeding from their...