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...making the inevitable an accomplished fact kept taking thousands of lives. Hitler's last big offensive, the Battle of the Bulge, crashed through U.S. lines in the snow-covered Ardennes Forest just before Christmas of 1944. When the battle was over, the Germans had suffered more than 100,000 casualties, the Allies 81 ,000. From then on, the German retreat never really stopped. U.S. forces seized the Remagen bridge and swarmed across the Rhine in March. Frankfurt fell, then Karlsruhe. The Soviets took Vienna on April...
...West usually goes through a fire season in the last weeks of summer, but the ferocious blazes rarely start this early. "It's burning like October," said Dan Kleinman of the U.S. Forest Service. Meteorologists blame a mammoth high-pressure system, centered over Utah and bringing temperatures as high as 112 °F, for the weather conditions that have fostered the fires. The climatic front has locked the Western states into a kind of giant sauna, where dry heat settles, ocean breezes cannot penetrate and nighttime temperatures remain high. "We're facing all of July and August," said Clyde...
...love coming in with the bases loaded trying to get us out of a jam,” says Haviland, who turned down Wake Forest and his father’s alma mater, UConn, to attend Harvard. “I would like to think that I get better when the pressure?...
...Harvard coach Joe Walsh expect anything less from the 6’1, 210-lb. kid that he snatched from the jaws of Wake Forest University. Though Wilson might look pretty comfortable in Crimson, it was by no means a foregone conclusion. Shopping around for schools his senior year, Wilson focused most of his attention southward. Winthrop University, where his brother pitches, was one option, but Wake Forest courted him heavily. Then, the weekend before he was to sign on as a Demon Deacon, Walsh called...
...called up the Wake Forest to say thanks but no thanks, and, having burned his bridges, spent the next four months sweating out the acceptance letter. Fortunately for Wilson—and fortunately for the Crimson’s future Ivy title campaign—he was accepted. For someone who admittedly wasn’t all that interested in Harvard until the last possible moment, it had become the only foreseeable outcome...