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...shares in a building. Almost all of it gets appraised and sold. The private placement department, which handles Harvard's holdings in different real estate trusts, buildings and shopping centers, makes only one deal every two or three months--but it will turn over $20 million at a crack...
...Trumpet. "Harvard says, in effect, 'you do whatever you want while you're here.' And I did. I played poker every night and didn't go to class nearly enough. I drifted Advice was there only if you actively looked for it. It's easy to slip through the crack," he says. Finally after his freshman year. Rintels took time...
...unreliable recruits from Eastern Europe. Only 70,000 of the defenders were stationed near the targeted beaches. The Luftwaffe's fighter defenses had been seriously depleted in two years of air battles, and the remnants were in the process of being pulled back to defend the Reich itself. Three crack panzer divisions stood ready as a reserve, but Rommel could not count on them, for Hitler insisted on retaining personal control over their movements. Only recently had Rommel succeeded in organizing a crash program to install 1 million mines a month along the heavily barricaded beaches...
...crack German units was the Panzer Lehr Division, in which Colonel Helmut Ritgen served. Ritgen, who retired eight years ago from a military career and now lives near Hannover, says that Allied fire power in the Normandy campaign was overwhelmingly greater than anything he had faced on the Eastern Front. "We felt superior to the Russians," he recalls. "At first we were even convinced that we would be able to throw the Allies back from the beaches. But just moving up toward the front in Normandy under air attack discouraged...
...over interest payments, but Judge Weinstein refused to delay the case. Less than three hours later he was able to tell the veterans' lawyers: "The case is over if you take 180." They did. Some 50 lawyers and corporate officials then crammed into Weinstein's chamber to crack bottles of champagne and celebrate the unprecedented settlement...