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...circulated quickly via mobile-phone text messages and Internet bulletin boards. More than a thousand angry students massed outside the foreign students' dormitory and sang the Chinese national anthem, before shouting for the "Japanese pigs" to come out and apologize. When no one appeared, protesters broke windows with bricks, burst into the dorm and beat up two Japanese students who had had nothing to do with the dance, says a Japanese diplomat sent to investigate the case. Over the next two days crowds of students and other Xi'an residents demonstrated in public squares across the city. According to witnesses...
...three victories, Harvard has burst out of the gate, outplaying the opposition from the start...
...guerrillas and Sri Lanka's predominantly Sinhalese army. After the Tamil fighters retreated, the army drove into Mankulam. Singham knew what was coming next. Pulling down the shutters of his shop, he ran out the back door with his wife and four children, just before bullets and mortar shells burst into every store in the Tamil-dominated village. For the next 13 years, Singham, now a 56-year-old with a clenched jaw, gleaming eyes and a look of reptilian toughness, took refuge with his family in the nearby village of Mallavi while Mankulam was repeatedly ravaged by the civil...
...Crimson’s first loss of the season, the Big Green burst through time and again with forceful, momentum-changing plays that Harvard was unable to counter...
...Chris Little, though ultimately held to just 91 yards by a rush-focused Crimson defense, nabbed 35 yards on one savvy exploitation of a gaping hole in the defense. With the Big Green already up 16-9 in the third quarter, Little took advantage of a heavy blitz to burst through on a beeline to the end zone, scoring completely untouched to give Dartmouth a 23-9 lead...