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Hill, who was arrested with three others in 1974 for his alleged involvement in the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings, was brutally interrogated and repeatedly beaten by British authorities. As a result of fabricated evidence, Hill was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release at the age of 20. Hill spent 15 years in prison, five of them in solitary confinement. In April, 1994, after a lengthy court battle, he was exonerated of all charges...
...want it to be thought of as a pub because people's expectations of a typical pub are lower than the services that we will provide," Feiner said, stressing his promise of good food complimented by good beer...
...defunct group AALARM. Once the self-association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion the group is now the College's greatest shame. It lost in 1993, and defied College pestering rules last its offensive message on campus kiosks. Its former Q. Le '96, even defended the pestering campaign pub...
...academic posts beckoned; between 1989 and 1994, he was both the professor of poetry at Oxford and the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard. And he attracted hordes of acolytes and admirers along the way, a bearish, affable bard equally at ease in faculty room or pub...
...tumultuous here and now. His move to Dublin, capital of the Irish Republic, in 1972 also proved controversial. But Heaney has written quite movingly about the carnage wrought by hatred in his native land. In "Casualty," he portrays the death of a Catholic friend who went to a Protestant pub in spite of warnings that a wing of the Irish Republican Army planned to bomb it: "He had gone miles away/ For he drank like a fish." After the explosion: "How culpable was he/ That last night when he broke/ Our tribe's complicity?" The question is both wrenching...