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...pair's catty and provocative banter heightens quickly into sneerful braying as Martha announces that, at daddy's request, she's invited a young couple over for a nightcap. The jocky, naively ambitious biology professor Nick (Roy Souza) and his cotton-candy wifelet Honey (Nicole Jesson) arrive amidst a jeering exchange of expletives. At first bubbling with apologies and awkwardness, they soon fall immediately into their hosts' manipulative and destructive games. Surrounded by a well-stocked bar and worn volumes on the shelves (including such too-apt titles as "The Possessed," "Illusions," "Gamesman" and "Father's Day"), the elder couple...

Author: By Lisa K. Pinsley, | Title: BCA's Woolf: Be Afraid; Be Very Afraid | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

Edward Cafasso, a spokesperson for the office of State Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64, reacted with outrage to Harvard's request, accusing the University of trying to make money off of a tragedy, according to The Boston Globe...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: Harvard Seeking Damages For 1995 Helicopter Crash | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...main-party opponents, Perot wouldn't have been much of a factor in the race at all. He was languishing at 5% or 6% in the polls until the Democrats blundered into a series of campaign-finance flaps--prime Perot territory--and Bob Dole made his ill-advised request that Perot leave the race. The attention he had been deprived of because of his exclusion from the debates suddenly rained down upon what had become a nearly irrelevant sideshow. As a result, his support nearly doubled, though by Election Day it had slipped back to under 9%--a long step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY PEROT WASN'T A CONTENDER | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

Assistant Dean of Students Eleanor Sparagana said yesterday that police said they had identified a few suspects, but no arrests have yet been made. At Sparagana's request, all door locks in Weld were replaced the following day, when crowds of first-years began moving into the dormitory...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Weld Thefts Alarm Students | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...Italian justice system and "a slap in the face" for the victims of the massacre and their families. The battle is not over yet, says TIME's Rhea Schoenthal from Bonn. "The German government is out to get Priebke. The court in Dortmund has written out the extradition request and will try to prosecute him regardless. Germany really can't afford to do anything else; it is German policy to put as many Nazi war criminals as possible on trial." so far. The 1,600 relay team, meanwhile, will have to make do without Michael Johnson. Jon Drummond, Tim Harden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany To Extradite Nazi | 8/28/1996 | See Source »

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