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Congratulations, ace. America's unprecedented economic gains were beaten out of your work-obsessed hide, and what have you got to show for it? A few extra bucks to pay the shrink or the barkeep? A promotion that bumps you up to 60 hours a week? A pager? The bone they haven't thrown you is the one you desperately need--more time away from the salt mine...
...into aircraft carriers off Okinawa; American G.I.s blown to bits by 16-in. mortar shells in Tarawa; a Japanese woman throwing her baby and then herself off a cliff in Saipan rather than surrender; the frozen bodies of American G.I.s massacred by German SS in the Ardennes Forest; the beaten carcass of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hanging by his heels in a square in Milan; and, of course, the emaciated corpses of slaughtered Jews piled up like cords of wood at Dachau...
...want to graduate having never beaten Princeton, and I feel like next year will be our turn," Micomonaco said...
...Harvard hosted No. 1 Creighton the following weekend and was soundly beaten, 6-0. Yet Kerr and his squad bounced back the following day to earn their first win of the season against Colombia, 2-1. The fourth and final game of the homestand was a 1-1 overtime tie to cross-town rival Boston University...
...many women's hockey fans. Harvard (21-5-3, 17-4-3 ECAC) had been ranked No. 1, 2 or 3 in the national polls almost every week of the season. The Crimson was the defending champ and had beaten the other teams that had the top ranking (Northeastern and Brown) as well as the team that eventually won the national championship (Minnesota...