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...very next drive, Harvard drove all the way to the Columbia one-yard line but drew a delay of game penalty on first-and-goal. Now at the Columbia 6-yard line, Harvard called for a designed pass to Wilford. Menick took the pitch, ran right, and his pass, floating because of the wind, was intercepted by defensive end Chris Nugent in the end zone...
Leakey's powerful personality and outspokenness drew the wrath of government insiders. In 1994, following a series of attacks against Leakey in Parliament and the state-run press, Moi announced an investigation into alleged improprieties at the Wildlife Service. Leakey quit. "I could no longer achieve," he says. "Everything was too combative." The simmering animosity between the two men boiled over a year later, when Leakey helped form an opposition party. Though never a major force, the party attracted enough attention to provoke attacks from the ruling Kenya African National Union party...
Dunn's dry wit drew laughs from the audience. She compared the process of translating between languages to that of interpreting the slang of current college students...
...years philosophical differences between Boston and Harvard drew the discussions out and made compromise difficult, according to Ron W. Rakow, a Boston commissioner...
...magnet that drew the capital back to Berlin wasn?t the city?s storied nightlife. Berlin had been Germany?s historic capital, and the establishment of the West German government in Bonn was an expression of postwar trauma (and an acknowledgment of the difficulties of operating in isolated West Berlin). "Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made clear after the war that the reason they chose Bonn was precisely because they were looking for a city without a history," says Wallace. The return to Berlin, its reviled wall now shattered into millions of sobering souvenirs, is a sign then that after the horrors...