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...Year's Eve together. They never returned to their homes in County Donegal, a few miles from the Northern Ireland border. Around 2 a.m. a local farmer heard about 15 shots and a scream. The couple's bodies were found later side by side in a ditch next to a lonely lane. Boyce had been stabbed in the chest and genitals; he had also been shot once through the head, once through the leg, twice through the chest and several times in the arms. His fiancée had been stabbed in the chest and shot four times...
Quarterback Mike Lynch, while being tackled by a huge B.C. lineman, fired a last-ditch pass that hit fullback Larry Conrad perfectly at the 15. Conrad picked up two blocks and scored untouched...
...poor in either case, see no hope for self-advancement in the reality of changing American life. They are struggling to adhere to the values by which they have been raised amidst an era of upheaval in which those values have been betrayed, Theirs is a last ditch effort to fend off the Powers of the unknown ("Can Jesus deliver a drug addict? Can Jesus deliver a homosexual?") and to realize symbolic economic success in traditional ways ("I resolved to use that Cadillac for God.") These survivors of the rural lower middle class put their faith in an authoritarian figure...
...filled with sand, and the 40 racers begin to string out because there's only room for six of them to ride abreast. The two leaders begin to battle for the lead Faster and faster they go, reaching speeds of 85 m.p.h. But suddenly there's a ditch in the road, and the cycles go flying into...
...couple of months later I found out that Lawrence Hall had burned down during the Spring of 1970 and that the big ditch was going to become an Undergraduate Science Center. Six years ago the site was entirely different. An often-clogged intersection, where Kirkland St., Cambridge St. and Broadway converged sat just outside the back gates of the Yard. By 1967 the Cambridge St. Underpass was built, Kirkland St. was cut off at its current length and a grassy field was formed where the intersection had been...