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...Autumn leaves on the ground. A myriad of boats slicing through pristine water. A massive influx of visitors from far and wide. Lockdown of Harvard Yard. Fried dough...
Every revolution has its moment of combustion. Yugoslavia's came on an autumn Wednesday in the persons of three elderly men on a tractor. Hundreds of Slobodan Milosevic's dreaded special police had swept down on the hard-bitten diggers at the Kolubara coal mine in Serbia's heartland who had first initiated popular resistance by refusing to work. Attempting to force out the 7,000 striking miners intent on crippling the country's electric grid, security troops surrounded the complex and blockaded a key bridge with police buses. But the workers stood fast, broadcast for help on radios...
...always teach The Great Gatsby just after the end of summer, when the Long Island light has lowered to copper streaks, the "inessential houses," as Fitzgerald called them, have been closed and boarded, and Gatsby is dead again. He is dead every autumn, and I take a melancholy consolation speaking of him to my college students after everything he yearned for is irretrievably gone. That, of course, is the heartbreak of the novel--the yearning to be young forever and to redo, remake. And the yearning does not get more manageable simply because one can do nothing about...
...first time, Harvard hosted the 16-team championship at the Beren Tennis Center, which brought together all the Ivy League teams and schools such as Virginia Tech and Army for the only major autumn championship in the Northeast...
...weeks. America lost the enthusiasm and frenzy it displayed just four years earlier during the 1996 Games in Atlanta. NBC's ratings for these Games were among the worst ever, partly because of the time difference and partly because the games were held in the middle of American autumn...