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Think that nothing of importance ever happened in August? That's how much you know. The first execution by electrocution was performed in August 1890. Judge Crater disappeared in August, plumb vanished from the middle of Manhattan. Britain's Great Train Robbery was pulled on Aug. 8, 1963, and Trotsky...
Some 1,500 miles across the Mediterranean, another disaster was in the making as an EgyptAir Boeing 73.7, en route from Athens to Cairo with approximately 100 people on board, was hijacked last Saturday and forced down at Luqa Airport on Malta. Demanding fuel to continue on to an unspecified...
Bhutto has thus far failed to transform her personal popularity into political power. When she and other People's Party leaders were arrested in August during a government crackdown, the party called for a nationwide protest. Riots followed in Karachi and rural Sind province, the Bhutto family's traditional power...
Other incidents have been compiled by Mikey Weinstein, a Jewish graduate of the academy, who was shocked last year when his son Curtis, a cadet, told him he would "beat the s___ out of the next person who ... tells me our people are responsible for the execution of Jesus Christ...
Not all professors see the shift toward centralization as an unqualified loss for the University. Lee Professor of Economics Claudia Golden says Summers’ instincts to centralize control will make for speedier execution of University-wide initiatives.