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...issues involved may have been Mickey Mouse power politics, but the dialogue was hard-boiled. Brock told Keene, "I'm cutting the string -- you're finished." Then Devine innocently asked to join the breakfast club. "You might as well," Brock snarled. "I'll take both of you at once." Both mutineers, along with their baggage, were unceremoniously dumped from the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Massacre In Orlando | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Since the age of 11, when she took first place in her native Taiwan's national piano competition, the Los Angeles resident has put together an extraordinary string of musical accolades: soloing with the Taipei Municipal Symphony orchestra, playing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic 10 times, and winning a spate of competitions, including the concerto contest at the Manhattan School of Music, where she spent a year before coming to Harvard...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Romantic Interlude | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

Leno followed with a string of jokes about Americans and their perspectives on world and national hunger. "Rather than working at a program that feeds people on a regular basis, we get involved with a program that feeds them biannually," Leno joked...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Leno Receives Lampy Prize | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

Kills Killed: When a streak ends, it ends with a bang. In Saturday's 6-5 win over St. Lawrence, Harvard's string of 57 consecutive ECAC penalty-kills came to a screeching halt when Saint forward Joe Day scored on a power play during SLU's three-goal barrage in the final minutes of the game...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Icemen Keep Flying in ECAC | 3/2/1988 | See Source »

Prosecutors demanded the death sentence for Khaled for a string of attacks that left two Israelis dead and six Israeli and two American diplomats wounded. Both Khaled and his cousin Gamal Shawki Abdel Nasser fled Egypt a few months ago and have reportedly taken refuge in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Son of the Revolution | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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