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...Crimson (8-5-3, 7-2-2 ECAC), building upon the success of its comeback win over Bowling Green in the Denver Cup consolation game, defeated both Union (6-6-3, 2-4-1) and Rensselaer (7-6-2, 2-3-2) this weekend to cement its place atop the ECAC standings...
GIULIANI: I don't remember hearing a rumble, but I see the desk shaking. Still, in my mind, it is not the building collapsing. In my mind, the radio tower [a 360-ft. mast atop Tower One] came down, and that's the noise I'm hearing. When I look around, what I see is something close to a nuclear bomb. I see dark smoke. The decision is made to evacuate...
...winter of 2000, Mike Kehoe was called to a first-alarm fire at an apartment in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y. No one was home, but he scaled the roof to break a skylight and release the explosive gases building within. A photo of Mike perched atop a row of Brooklyn brownstones appeared in the Daily News the following morning. The guys at the firehouse joked for a few minutes that he was almost famous. His mother cut out the photo and filed it away in her scrapbook...
...Play a Simple Melody," or "Simple Melody/Musical Demon," 1914. This was Berlin's first contrapuntal tune: two melodies - one demure, one robust - that are sung consecutively, then one atop the other. (He did it again with "I Wonder Why/You?re Just in Love" for "Call Me Madam"). It was the biggest hit of his first Broadway score, "Watch Your Step," and spawned hit versions that reached #4 and #8. In 1950 the song did a Lazarus, or would have if he?d been a barbershop quartet. This time there were four hits, including Bing and Gary Crosby...
...Mount Everest. Weather forced him to retreat, and a careless mistake - removing his gloves to tie his boots - led to frostbite that cost him five fingers. Most kids might have stuck to their Game Boy after that, but on May 23, Tsheri became the youngest person to stand atop Everest. For an encore, the 16-year-old Nepali says, "I am going to concentrate on my studies...