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...with a similar determination that Lu fights for an answer to why the Beichuan No. 1 Middle School caved in, crushing his daughter. Lu had just had lunch with her in town an hour before the quake struck. He felt the earth move as he waited for a bus back to their mountain village. Rocks tumbled down from a nearby peak, but as soon as the tremors eased he ran to the school. "The five-story building was completely flattened and young, broken bodies were everywhere," he says. "There were parents here and there, crying and digging for their children...
...great strengths is his ability to articulate and explain in a way that the public can follow.” Mondale addressed many issues Obama will face, but said that the most dangerous was “whether we have a government who believes it has to answer the law, or do we have a continuation of the imperial presidency.” When asked what advice he would give Obama, Mondale suggested he follow the example of former president Jimmy Carter, whom Mondale served as vice-president. “Carter and I obeyed the law and kept...
...second half, the Wildcats (1-1, 0-0 AE) moved to within seven of the Crimson (1-0, 0-0 Ivy) at 62-55.New Hampshire had the momentum, having strung together a 7-2 run in just three minutes prior to the play. But Harvard was able to answer, as Boehm lobbed a great pass into Wright, who laid the ball in over two defenders, drew the foul, then unleashed a resounding yell to cap off the play.After nailing the free throw and then grabbing the rebound on the other end, he passed up to Kenyi. The guard then kicked...
...teams compete to guess the most frequent responses to inane questions previously posed to 100 average Americans. For example, if asked “What’s a cure for the hiccups,” teams try to respond not with the most accurate or effective answer, but the one most common answer, which in this case is “Scare the person.” A group of Harvard kids are not indicative of home-spun average responses—I knew we were probably screwed, but I was strangely undeterred. We spent the weeks leading...
...average façade was crumbling. During the “Fast Money” speed round, I claimed that 13 was a good age for a parent to start treating you like an adult, a truly terrible answer. As a Jew, it seemed sensible enough—a bar or bat mitzvah is when every Jew becomes an adult, and even aside from that as a naturally precocious, overly-responsible non-child, my parents had started treating me like an adult at 13. I had given my real self away, with few points to show...