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During one January reading period in the early 1970s, a first-year in Matthews Hall conspired to flush all the building’s toilets at once. When the ageing plumbing exploded, he was suspended for a year. Although it’s unlikely that residents of Matthews that year have forgotten the incident, it is lost to most, buried deep in Harvard history...
...want to force your opponent to take shots he might not want to." What motivates Europe may not be what you think. It's not revenge, though golf fans will surely bring up 1991's War by the Shore at Kiawah Island, South Carolina, where the Americans, in the flush of Gulf War bellicosity, donned camouflage caps. Or the bad manners at Brookline in 1999, when Team U.S.A. - players, wives, hangers-on - stormed the 17th green to celebrate what turned out to be the winning putt, even though Spain's José María Olazábal hadn...
...Russia's alleged Aug. 23 air raid on Georgian territory. It "has broken all limits," Georgia's President said at the funeral of Guram Otiashvili, supposedly killed in the raid on Matani village. Shevardnadze's trip to the Gorge followed his decision to send 1,000 troops to flush out the Chechen separatists Russia says are hiding there. Shevardnadze spurned Russia's suggestion of a joint operation against the Chechens: "We will solve our problems on our own, and the Pankisi Gorge will become one of the country's exemplary and stable regions." MEANWHILE The Axman Cometh Guests...
...living as a refugee in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Then came the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The U.S.-led coalition needed local proxies to prosecute the war in the Pashtun-dominated southeast. Zadran, who fought against the Soviets and the Taliban, found himself flush with U.S. cash and with an army of foot soldiers. Zadran and his extended clan actually ran the provinces of Khost, Paktia and Paktika for a few weeks last spring until he was chased out of Gardez by local tribal elders. He wants those jobs back...
Built in just 147 days, the Monitor was a total innovation from bow to stern-including a flush toilet below the waterline...