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...providing covering fire as Summers burst into the third and fourth buildings, killed twelve Germans and chased out the rest. A private crept up and said to Summers, "Why are you doing it?" Said Summers: "I can't tell you." Said the private: "O.K., I'm with you." At the next building, the Americans killed 30 more Germans. Then they found 15 Germans inexplicably eating breakfast and shot them all. At the last building, the support gunner's tracers set the roof on fire, and an additional 30 Germans stumbled out to be shot down...
...MIDDLE of the night of March 28, a cold, snowy evening, a procession of moving vans crept out of a training camp in Owing Mills, Md., carrying away not only the cleats and shoulderpads of the Baltimore Colts but also the trust and affection of their fans. When Baltimore arose the next morning, Colts owner Robert Irsay had ensconced their team in Indianapolis. The Baltimore sun and the News American responded with blaring headlines about "The Rape of Baltimore," and local talk shows haven't yet stopped recycling the anguish...
...what has happened to legal training at the Harvard Law School, in some respect I agree with Richard. I think that it has gotten broader and more interesting, more variety. In some respects, however, I think it has deteriorated. I think it's deteriorated because there has crept in an attitude, both among students and faculty, that rigor in thinking and careful, painstaking work is somehow not worth it, because one should jump rather quickly to "the big issues." I see it in classes every where, that there is a decline in the willingness to really deploy evidence carefully...
...second outbreak from a 6,000-ft.-wide fissure farther down the mountain kept stoking the 2,000° F flow. For a while, one stream crept toward the isolated, minimum-security Kulani prison camp. For almost three hours, 20 guards and 75 prisoners were without electricity after power was cut off to be rerouted to other areas affected by the lava flow. Some Hilo residents remained unworried and held "housewarming" parties; others looked up at the looming lava and decided to evacuate the area temporarily...
...malaise finally crept into Trudeau's own party. An autocrat who rarely consulted caucus, Trudeau exploited his power of personality and cultivated his dislike for day-to-day administration. Accountability to the press and to members of his own party became less and less frequent, but back-benchers kept their mouths shut--knowing Trudeau was the only hope for their own political backsides...