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Carswell and Lonergan weren't just the best two runners on the team, they were two of the best runners in the league. Carswell won Heps and came in 17th in the NCAAs, earning All-American status. Lonergan, healthy for the first time in years, came in ninth in Heps and kept on improving over the winter...
...Chicago police, those masters of irony, rioted. They left their vehicles, marked WE SERVE AND PROTECT, and lumbered out to beat the demonstrators into Jell-O. Hard by the northern limits of their depredation we found and find a statue of Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, famous 17th century hophead and remittance man. La Salle thought he had discovered China on that spot, and wrote to tell the folks at home...
...protesters at bay and let the marches go through. About 1,300 Orangemen, an Ulster Protestant order, were given permission to march down the disputed Garvaghy Road to the beat of a single drum, along the same route they have followed for the past 189 years to commemorate the 17th century victories over the Catholics. "The Catholics were furious," Gibson says. "There were violent confrontations between demonstrators trying to block the routes and police, who lashed out on all sides with batons." Within an hour, she reports, rioters in the town of Portadown torched dozens of cars and many Catholic...
...advance briefing on the Air Force probe into the crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was enough for Major General Charles Heflebower. Even before the 6,000-page report was flown to the U.S. last Friday for weekend reading at the Pentagon, Heflebower, who heads the 17th Air Force in Europe, relieved of their commands the three top officers who had jurisdiction over the fatal April 3 flight. They are Brigadier General William Stevens, chief of the 86th Airlift Wing in Ramstein, Germany, and his two top subordinates, Colonels Roger Hansen and John Mazurowski. "There will be other officers...
...some Puritan colony of the 17th century had to determine which of their number would find his name immortalized, I doubt anyone would have picked an obscure member of the clergy named John Harvard. After all, it is always the great leaders, the John Winthrops, who claim the headlines of their day. But John Harvard's name has gone onto greatness through its association with this University...