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...America’s furious reaction to this standoff and worried that they would become scapegoats. The 444 tense days of the Iranian hostage crisis marked the political climate of the Class of 1981’s four years at the College and shaped the social atmosphere they would enter after graduation.Every night during the crisis, Americans tuned in to ABC’s “The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage” to listen to Ted Koppel’s analysis of the situation. That broadcast “helped keep the issue front and center...
...attention-seeking youngster that I was, I saw my window of opportunity and I seized it. Bolting from my hiding place, I ran towards the screen and began yelling, “Football! Football! Yay! Football!” before sprinting from the room as quickly as I had entered while my father roared with laughter. When I quietly reemerged a short time later, he snatched me up and sat me down beside him, explaining the sport as best he could while we took in the game together—our first, but certainly not our last...
Many teams enter their seasons with a checklist of challenges they will have to meet and hurdles they will have to overcome. The Harvard skiing team, however, found itself with a particularly daunting obstacle in its path: as the season began, the alpine squad had no coach. With former head coach Justin Rouleau having departed for Massachusetts, the Crimson was left to coach itself. Rather than finding itself adrift, however, the team seemed to come together. Recruitment, a major problem in previous years, achieved new heights, as a team that had once had trouble finding enough skiers to compete...
DIED. Carolyn Shaw Bell, 85, dynamic Wellesley College economist credited with upping the number of women in economics and business by inspiring her students to enter those male-dominated fields and helping to produce what the New York Times in 1995 called the "Wellesley factor"; in Arlington...
There's a plot of sorts: the time is a few years hence, and the public-housing ghettos, petri dishes for the car-burning riots that traumatized Paris last fall, have been turned into official ghettos, requiring a pass to enter or leave and ruled by gangs. A guy named Leto (David Belle) runs afoul of one of them, and his sister is abducted and enslaved by its comically malevolent leader (Bibi Naceri). Meanwhile, a WMD has gone missing somewhere in B13, and a cop named Damien (Cyril Raffaelli) makes common cause with Leto to retrieve...