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With twelve seconds to go, the players reentered the pool after a brief time-out. With drums from the MIT fans beating in the background, the Crimson and the Engineers prepared themselves for a final battle...
...songwriter has released over 40 albums, including 1997’s Time Out of Mind, a Grammy-winning comeback album that followed several poorly-received efforts and a brief flirtation with fundamentalist Christianity. He won the 2001 Academy Award for Best Song in a Motion Picture for “Things Have Changed” and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby also praised the renovations in a brief speech Friday...
...host of international events little-known in the United States—the BBC and other foreign news sources are often the only options. Many foreign news agencies regularly report on stories, from Haiti to Palestine and Iraq, that the American media either ignores or only mentions in brief summaries or at the end of stories. Indeed, the American media are constantly preoccupied with the status of Americans at the expense of all others; it seems that American lives are valued as far more important than those of foreigners...
...During a brief lull, a Marine in a house near the now disabled vehicles runs into the street and pulls a boy from the truck, carrying him over his shoulder back into the house. Inside, four Marines tend to the sobbing boy, who has been shot in the shin and is calling out in Arabic, which no one understands. "Why don't they hit the brakes?" says one Marine to no one in particular. "I think we killed that kid's dad," says another. A truck approaches but warning shots turn it around. "Tell them to stop all traffic...