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...most deserved chant of the night went to senior captain Tammy Butler when she left the floor for the last time in her Crimson career. With one minute left to play, the student section rose to its feet and started rhythmically chanting...
...footage shows guerrillas planting their flag, Iwo Jima-style, as they storm an Israeli position. Israeli troops load casualties onto stretchers and into helicopters. "Thousands upon thousands are waiting for their martyrdom," says Nasrallah of his forces. Cross hairs are superimposed over footage of Israeli soldiers on patrol. Voices chant, "Resistance! Resistance! Resistance...
Jerry Rubin, the Yippie-turned-Yuppie credited with the sixties' chant, "Don't trust anyone over 30," has died two weeks after he was hit by a car while jaywalking in Los Angeles. Rubin, 56, gained fame as one of the Chicago Seven who led bloody protests against the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, then wore judicial robes into court -- inviting nearly 200 contempt citations -- while being tried on conspiracy charges in connection with the riots. He later became a tailored businessman, selling health foods and networking on Wall Street, and once said he cut his hair and shaved...
Skirmishes quickly spread to other parts of Gaza City. Officials ordered a curfew, to no avail. Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters filled the streets, chanting anti-Arafat slogans and menacing the authorities. One mob descended on Arafat's military headquarters and tried to pull down the surrounding fence. The radicals denounced Arafat and his followers as stooges for Israel and vowed revenge. During a funeral procession for one of the fallen, a mourner took up an increasingly popular chant, "O Arafat, O Arafat, the Jihad killed Sadat," a reference to the Egyptian leader assassinated by fundamentalists...
Even Roosevelt aides, responding to the universal GOP chant of "Four more years!" said "two more years" would be a more realistic view of Weld's second term, which they expect to be cut short by his bid for the presidency...