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During Rowe’s tenure it was revealed that Harvard had secretly purchased acres of land across the river in Allston. “Grogan came in with the mandate to blaze the trail in Allston,” Rowe said...
When the darkness swallowed her husband, all Zhang Jiaqin saw was a wisp of black smoke emanating from the ground. It could have been a harvest blaze or the remnants of a cooking fire. But as she stood in the cornfields of this hardscrabble corner of southwest China, Zhang knew better. Like a fisherman's wife who scans the seas when the weather turns turbulent, a coal miner's spouse recognizes the fatal signs: a thread of smoke, a muffled boom and then a rush of blackness flowing from the charred earth. "I knew he had died the moment...
...local mosque. The Palestinian Authority took control of 80 percent of the city in 1997, although a small settler presence remained in the center of town. Thus today's Hebron, where some 400 settlers guarded by hundreds more soldiers live surrounded by 130,000 Palestinians - and guns blaze almost daily...
...make it back to the negotiating table just yet. The current cease fire leaves the initiative in the hands of the naysayers. Although the truce is surviving one day at a time despite a steady daily death toll in minor clashes, all it would take to rekindle the blaze would be one suicide bombing in a crowded Israeli marketplace, or one settler zealot emptying his weapon into a crowd of Palestinians. And that's a serious concern, since there are substantial militant constituencies on both sides who have no interest in seeing the cease-fire hold...
Civilization, Joseph Conrad writes in Heart of Darkness, is “like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker—may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday...