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...surprised by this, for human history has shown that far from recoiling from abrogating standards of decency, the majority has eagerly leapt at any chance to use disease, was or natural calamity to turn its fury on the unpopular minority. Jews in Europe were killed during the plague. Japanese-Americans were sent off to internment camps in World War II, while the politically powerful Italian- and German-American remained free...
Fred Scherer set the pace early by consistently outracing the Bruin opponents to the ball as well as firing in two goals in the first three minutes of the game. Hard-fought battles both above and below the surface raged at both ends of the pool. The relentless Crimson leapt to an early 3-0 lead and prompted a Brown timeout...
...lies practically in the shadow of Manhattan's towers. When fire fighters reached the scene, they encountered what one called "a ball of fire" about 50 ft. high roaring down an alley of the factory complex alongside the city's namesake river. The blaze churned into an inferno that leapt explosively from building to building, incinerating one instantaneously and then--boom!--vaulting on to the next. In the end, some 1,000 fire fighters were powerless to stop it. Fueled by a variety of industrial-use chemicals stored in the structures, the fire consumed wooden flooring as though it were...
...hopes of the students who led the three-day boycott of classes to pressure the university back to the table. In those talks, the union demand dropped from a $40 million cumulative raise over the next three years to $30 million, according to university estimates: Yale's counteroffer leapt from $18 million right up to $18 million...
Since that legislation went into effect, the number of students studying outside of Harvard has leapt dramatically, according to Margot N. Gill, associate director in charge of study abroad at the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning. This year there was a 54 percent leap in the number of students studying abroad for credit. And the students came from 31 different concentrations, Gill notes...