Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Graduate students aren't the only people you'll overhear discussing astrophysics or Assyrian art at Out of Town News. Harvard Square harbors a ragtag community of itinerant intellectuals, secret geniuses, closet poets and conspiracy theorists who have no official connection to the University ("I'm not enrolled at Harvard, I just go there...
...first wife of a foreign head of state to stand trial in an American court. U.S. prosecutors say she wove a "spider's web of deceit and corruption" that stretched halfway around the world. With testimony from 95 witnesses, the prosecutors have outlined a tangled tale of secret Swiss bank accounts and laundered money, forged signatures and phony names, bribes and kickbacks, smuggled paintings, a phantom ship loaded with Japanese gold from World War II, and offshore shams and scams of such complexity that one wonders how the Marcoses ever had time to run their country...
...Eastern Europe is a way of going home again. Frank Czena of Los Angeles participated in the Hungarian revolution of 1956. When Soviet forces crushed the rebellion, Czena, then 20, escaped by slipping out the back door of his grandmother's house in rural Kunagota just as the Hungarian secret police arrived to arrest him. Now the owner of Iron Masters, a manufacturer of structural steel and decorative iron, Czena feels a swell of pride in the political and economic changes taking place in his homeland. Czena plans to take part by building a steelworks there, but he readily concedes...
...Defense Secretary). That is a lot of evens, evened out by an unexpected development, which is that the two main characters actually come to life and play a convincing love story. Clementine is charming but alarming, like most Presidents, and Guy, a writer blocked by prudence and the Secret Service, is rueful and funny. He successfully conveys his secret to the reader: why First Ladies' portraits look that way -- why Abigail Powers Fillmore, for instance, "looks like she has just been induced, for the good of the nation, to eat a dozen mud pies...
...rapid political and economic unification of the two Germanys is paying an unexpected dividend: a combined attack on terrorism. After pooling information from West Germany and the impounded files of the now defunct East German secret police, the Stasi, East German authorities this month arrested seven people believed to be members of West Germany's notorious Red Army Faction, whose bloody campaign claimed more than 20 lives between...