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...evening started on a melancholy note for Harvard with the honoring of the squad's lone senior, Co-Captain Wendy Joseph...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Joseph's Finale Grand, but Late Yale Surge Overtakes Faltering Women Cagers, 65-56 | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Immediately after that operation last year, death threats fell down upon Colombia's Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, who had been leading a lone crusade against his country's bustling $5 billion-a-year cocaine trade. Less than two months later, in the streets of Bogota, two young hit men on a red Yamaha motorcycle pulled up alongside Lara's white Mercedes-Benz and pumped seven bullets into the 38-year-old minister. The killing electrified Colombia and enraged its government. "We've had enough," said President Belisario Betancur Cuartas, trembling with anger during his elegy to the slain minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the Cocaine Wars | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Syrians led him to an army encampment near Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon. Then he was taken to a Syrian intelligence office, where he described his capture by a lone gunman on the streets of Beirut last March 7. Next Levin was driven to the Syrian Foreign Ministry in Damascus, where he was turned over to William Eagleton, the U.S. ambassador in Damascus. Said Levin, as tears rolled down his cheeks: "The Orwellian year of 1984 was not a very good one for me, but 1985 is starting out a hell of a lot better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scrambling to Freedom | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...policy, we call upon seniors to examine the merits of the issues involved and to consider denating to Harvard only through the Endowment for Divestiture. We sincerely hope that this money will go towards undergraduate education. The money in E 4D is carmarked for the Harvard Scholarship Fund so lone as Harvard reforms its South Africa policy by the year 2003. Of course, E4D accepts donations from all quarter, including members of the Senior Class Gift Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E4D: The Only Moral Fund | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

...village marketplace, "the air luscious with the smells of spices, of frying coconut oil and garlic and cumin, the scents of frangipani and lime." The counterimage appears in a neighborhood of ghetto shanties, where everything "smelled like rotting fruit and kerosene, urine and garlic." In Hunger, a lone white works alongside a team of black fishermen; near the end of their labors, they all retire to a deserted beach for an extended evening feast. The outsider marvels at the smells that begin simmering from the cooking pots. He also recoils when he sees a comrade slice the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradise Lost Easy in the Islands | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

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