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...year resisted the Harvard president's desire to implement a financial aid increase to rival those being announced throughout the Ivy League and beyond. Only this fall did Knowles decide to unveil a plan of his own, and only after the Corporation had voted to take a much larger chunk out of the endowment for annual spending...
Last year, Eric Harris had thrown a chunk of ice at Brooks' car, cracking its windshield. Soon after, the Browns had discovered the spewings on Harris' website, geysers of hate like the one saying Harris longed to "blow up and shoot everything I can. Feel no remorse, no sense of shame...I don't care if I live or die in the shootout, all I want to do is kill and injure as many of you [expletive] as I can, especially a few people. Like Brooks Brown." Harris claimed to have the weaponry to carry out his threat against Brown...
...Ground Beneath Her Feet is Rushdie's first novel set primarily in America, though the main characters are Indian and a good chunk of the book takes place there. The first third of the book is a dense, atmospheric and compelling look at India during the beginning of British decolonization. The novel's featured three-some, beautiful Vina Apsara, musically gifted Ormus Cama and the narrator, Rai, are united early through friendships and tragedy. Vina, relocated to India from America after the murder of her family is adopted by Rai's parents, the Merchants. Soon, Vina meets Ormus Cama...
...Couric two mornings later, in an account almost unbearable to watch, Craig began praying for courage. "God told me to get out of there," he said. So he got up and started to run, yelling to others to come with him. One girl pleaded for help. "She had a chunk of her shoulder blown off with a shotgun," Craig said. "And I helped her get out. She was bleeding all over the place, and her--her bone was showing." They got out of the library, out to an exit, down to the cops, where Craig told them what the shooters...
...just wanted to make sure that I'm okay!" Jackie relays to us. Of course. Jackie's mom is now holding up a sizable chunk of traffic and the honking horns have reached a crescendo. Mother and daughter exchange a parting kiss, and the Pathfinder takes off into the night...