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...beginning, nobody took the suicide pact seriously. Why should Steve and Angela and Frank and Elaine and Heather--all rational seniors--want to die? But there they were, lined up side by side on the Weeks Bridge in the March pre-dawn, staring into the Charles like derelicts trying to drown the pain of too many lonely nights. Elaine decided to jump first. She dived into the current, came bobbing up out of instinct, and waved to the four on the bridge. Her hair swirled around the Ophelia in denim as the eddies carried her out of sight...
...subject by asking him to accompany her to Littauer to turn in the last chapter. It was 1 a.m., and she wanted to hand it in to her adviser by early morning. Stuart agreed, but when he returned two hours later, the chapter was still in the typewriter. Dawn was breaking by the time she finished writing and revising, and Stuart was curled up on her couch. Heather nudged him, but he was in a deep sleep and only groaned and turned his head. She covered him with a quilt and walked to Littauer by herself. In the Yard...
April 10, 1969: In the stillness of an early spring dawn, hundreds of students gather sleepily outside University Hall, watching the building that protesters have occupied for nearly 17 hours. The crowd in the Yard swells as the sun begins to rise, and 500 students begin to chant. "Stop expansionism. ROTC must...
...dawn the next day, key White House staffers started a round of meetings to try to contain the damage. They feared that Haig's resignation would indicate an ominous degree of disunity in the Administration. Moreover, Haig would be hard to replace, since no other foreign policy heavyweight was readily available and acceptable to Reagan. Finally, around 9:15 a.m. the President and Haig met to settle the affair. While they conferred, White House Congressional Liaison Max Friedersdorf phoned Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker three times to keep him posted on developments. Eventually, the White House drew...
...mercenary stories, including the exciting tales of those brave men who defend South Africa from "Cuban and East German backed guerrillas." Foreign Editor Al J. Venter has traveled to the front lines to send back this "World Exclusive." Obviously a writer by training, Venter opens his dispatch like this; "Dawn comes early in most parts of Africa." And two sentences later, this: "First light had come early to a group of eight South African soldiers on patrol during the winter of 1980." It turns out that, nearby these troopers, perhaps in the nooks of the jungle where light will arrive...