Word: foresters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fact: the Harvard football team scored more points against Army than Syracuse and Wake Forest managed in two games combined. The Crimson's 28-point output was the most the Cadets have allowed this season...
...revolves around one of Dr. Seuss's fantasies, The Lorax. The book has been required reading for second-graders for two years, but recently Judith Bailey requested that the Laytonville Unified School District downgrade it to optional. In The Lorax, it seems, a villain fells a forest to make garments called thneeds, and Dr. Seuss urges, "Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack." Bailey's husband Bill, it turns out, is a logging-equipment wholesaler. After his son read the book, says Bill, he "came home and labeled me a criminal." One pupil was said to have burst...
...respect for the state they helped destroy, the Soviets should own up to one of their war-time atrocities. Specifically, they should end the half century-long cover-up of a heinous crime in the Katyn forest...
...fate of the rest is well-known. Invading German armies found 4443 corpses in a mass grave in the Katyn forest, near Smolensk, USSR. Each victim had a bullet hole in the base of his skull. Each still wore his uniform, and each lay face-down over his fellow officers. Trees had been planted over the bodies...
...news is disappointing after Dragomirescu enjoyed one of her strongest seasons last spring. This summer, she reached the finals of the New York State Clay Court Championships in Forest Hills, N.Y. and the National Amateur Championships in Kiamesha Lake, N.Y. Teamed with Harvard teammate Jennifer Minkus, Dragomirescu advanced to the semifinals in the doubles competition at Forest Hills...