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Over the Edge follows the narrative line of earlier "teen gang" pictures-from idleness to violence, for no other reason than for something to do-but has a special kick. Here are boys and girls 12, 13, 14, precociously aping their elders. It makes the climax, in which they demolish the local high school, as chilling as any thing in The Exorcist...
...historical commission accepted without objection the University's plan to preserve the "historically significant" buildings at 134 Mt. Auburn St. and 3 Mt. Auburn Place which Harvard last month asked for permission to demolish...
...midnight knock on the door came shortly after George Qamsiyeh noticed one day last week that his two-story house was surrounded by Israeli soldiers. Once inside, an officer impatiently read a military decree ordering his squad to demolish the house and confiscate the land. Qamsiyeh's son Walid had been arrested the night before, and had purportedly confessed to throwing molotov cocktails at an Israeli bus. At gunpoint, the father was urged to sign the order and given 90 minutes to evacuate his family and their belongings. At 2:07 a.m., a thunderous blast rocked the West Bank...
Another especially pleasing effort for Hunt was Lucy Ashley's third place in the 400-meter hurdles. A freshman competing in this event for only the second time, she posted a time of 68.5 seconds to demolish the former Harvard school record of 70 seconds...
...RESIDENTS of the decaying Hotel Baltimore sit in the lobby all day long, waiting for the end. While the wrecking ball has yet to demolish the once-grand lodging house, the hotel's human mulch pile has already begun rotting amid the vinyl sofas and plastic chairs...