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With hindsight, it is easy to see why a slim, self-effacing Englishman named Thomas Edward Lawrence became one of this century's most ballyhooed celebrities. Out of the appalling carnage of World War I -- the mud-caked anonymity of the trenches, the hail of mechanized death that spewed from machine guns and fell from airplanes -- there emerged a lone Romantic, framed heroically against the clean desert sands of Arabia. U.S. journalist Lowell Thomas was the first to recognize that Lawrence's wartime work -- organizing disparate Arab tribes into armed revolt against the occupying Turks, allies of Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hero Our Century Deserved | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...HRAAA official or candidate has ever attacked any specific official candidates or slate. Though HRAAA has indeed politicized the Overseers elections by nominating candidates with overt political goals, it is Egan and other backers of the official slate who have reduced this year's election to its present mud-slinging level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Objectionable Role | 5/12/1989 | See Source »

...President, you promised us a clean administration--clean planet, clean schools, clean government. After 100 days, what do we have? An oil slick in Alaska, blood-stained streets in Anacostia and mud-spattered reputations in the government, your government...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Asking About The First 100 Days | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Cavuoti, the high-scoring 1988 Ivy Rookie of the Year, was held scoreless. Griffith managed one goal on a shot that barely slithered through the mud past Cheeseman...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Home Isn't Always Where the Heart Is | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

Some Homecoming. The Adelphi Kick Line, performing a risque half-time routine to Patrick Hernandez's "Born to Be Alive" in the Styles Field mud, had a better day. The three courageous members of the Adelphi Chorale Society who croaked their way through a painful rendition of their alma mater had a better day. The last-place New York Islanders from Uniondale didn't make the playoffs, but they probably would have had a better day if they...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Home Isn't Always Where the Heart Is | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

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