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...wonderfully hoarse voice, more like Andy Devine's than Dan's, and impressions of Faust were hardly damaged by the news that he had been whistling the Notre Dame fight song since the age of ten. Besides, despite a devoutness at Moeller High that extended to leading sideline "Hail Marys," he had shown no qualms about grinding his Crusaders' boots into overmatched opponents' necks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shaking Free of the Thunder | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...come from a family with a prominent man like my father, you don't survive a kidnapping," says Juan Carlos. Increasingly distressed about Colombia's drug wars, Botero has created more than 50 works on the violence, including a painting of druglord Pablo Escobar's 1993 death in a hail of bullets on a Medellín rooftop. Botero regards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nice Round Figures | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

Nearly 18 percent of next year’s freshman class hail from families earning less than $60,000 in annual income—a 3 percent increase over figures posted in recent years...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Moves Forward With Financial Aid Initiative | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

Missouri exploited a vulnerable Harvard defense early, and from inning one to the game’s conclusion, battered Crimson pitchers behind a hail of hits and runs...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Eliminated From NCAA Tournament By Missouri | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

...first priority, he says, was to move the radio to safety. Its weight, and its antenna and trailing cables, made it impossible to pick up the rifle. As for claims that he pushed the scout, "That just didn't happen." Nor did he order the scout to brave a hail of bullets. Instead, the young trooper was told to "retrieve my rifle, which was approximately 5 m away, when he could," and "he carried out this task during a lull in fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Valley of Death | 5/30/2005 | See Source »

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