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...next 30 minutes, the game was tightly contested. Northeastern received a red card for unsportsmanlike conduct in the 36th minute and shifted the momentum to Harvard for the rest of the contest...
...Chicago, Steve Bernard was huddled around the TV with colleagues on the 36th floor of Chicago's Sears Tower, shortly after 8 a.m., watching the smoke billowing from the World Trade Center after the first attack. When the second plane hit, bewilderment at a faraway spectacle turned into a much more personal, creeping panic. The Chicago staff of the Piper Jaffray investment firm suddenly redirected their gazes toward the windows, quietly searching for jets on their own horizon. The 110-story Sears Tower, even taller than the World Trade Center, is the tallest building in the U.S.; a vulnerable target...
...Chicago, Steve Bernard was huddled around the TV with colleagues on the 36th floor of Chicago's Sears Tower, shortly after 8 a.m., watching the smoke billowing from the World Trade Center after the first attack. When the second plane hit, bewilderment at a faraway spectacle turned into a much more personal, creeping panic. The Chicago staff of the Piper Jaffray investment firm suddenly redirected their gazes toward the windows, quietly searching for jets on their own horizon. The 110-story Sears Tower, even taller than the World Trade Center, is the tallest building in the U.S.; a vulnerable target...
...vote 100 years after the end of the Civil War, and not far from the "I Had a Dream" monument to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a statue of Forrest was raised on city property. The slate-gray memorial and its bright rebel symbol were approved during the 36th and final year of onetime segregationist Mayor Joe Smitherman's time in office. It was unveiled five days after the first black mayor in city history, James Perkins, was inaugurated...
Finally Alexander Hamilton, who deeply distrusted Burr, persuaded enough Federalists to go to Jefferson--"I trust," he said, "the Federalists will not finally be so mad as to vote for Burr"--that the House at last elected Jefferson on the 36th ballot. (Four years later, Burr killed Hamilton in a duel.) The crisis of 1800 led to reform: the 12th Amendment required that the Electoral College must thereafter vote separately for President and Vice President...