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...hour before the quake struck. He felt the earth move as he waited for a bus back to their mountain village. Rocks tumbled down from a nearby peak, but as soon as the tremors eased he ran to the school. "The five-story building was completely flattened and young, broken bodies were everywhere," he says. "There were parents here and there, crying and digging for their children, and I did just the same. I cried and cried, dug and dug, until the police stopped...
...studio sent Twilight's 22-year-old British star Robert Pattinson on a tour of appearances at the mall-based clothing store Hot Topic, where he was greeted by Beatlemania-caliber crowds. Pattinson's San Francisco appearance was canceled after a crush of fans left one girl with a broken nose...
...students exploded a black weather balloon, spraying talcum powder over the field (Harvard still won, 45-7). 1983: The 100th official anniversary of the Game sees a Crimson win, 16-7. 1997: Epic year for Harvard football in which two dozen records are broken, reflected in a 17-7 win over Yale. 2004: Yale pranksters give unsuspecting Harvard students signs that said “WE SUCK.” Harvard still won 35-3, concluding its seventh unbeaten, untied season. 2005: In the first triple-overtime game in Ivy League history the Crimson pulls...
Even with President Bush still in office, at least three internal government probes examining legal decisions by the White House are unfolding. Since December 2007, federal prosecutors, FBI agents and the internal watchdog office at the CIA have been investigating whether any laws were broken in 2005, when the CIA destroyed videotapes showing harsh interrogations of detainees. Separately, the Justice Department's internal Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating whether the department's legal approval of waterboarding and other so-called enhanced interrogation methods was appropriate. The same office is conducting a similar investigation into legal decisions made by Bush...
...reported pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The former Senate Democratic leader has an understanding of the nation's health-care problem that comes not just from Senate hearing rooms or staff briefings. Daschle has seen, as few in Washington have, the particular toll that the broken system has taken on rural America. When I went to South Dakota 15 years ago to do a story on the problem, Daschle drove me around himself, spreading a road map on the front seat of his car and taking me to places where poverty rates were high, people were...