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...Hillel has launched the Shira Palmer-Sherman Memorial Fund, which will support the arts and drama at Hillel. The memorial fund will also provide money for a menorah which will be lit by the entire Hillel community to celebrate Hanukah and to remember Shira, who died on the first day of the holiday...
...when Becky Blaeser '98, night editor on that fateful day back in September of 1997, asked me what sport I was most interested in writing, the answer was intuitive. Her eyes lit up. It turned out she was the Sports Editor, and the staff's lone hockey writer. I knew then that I would be able to write as much hockey as my talent and dedication permitted...
...More than 1,000 students from Harvard and Yale alike joined in the riot. They lit Roman candles and set off skyrockets. They brought traffic to a standstill and rocked cars stuck in the disorder...
Police Chief M.T. Berry says it wasn't until 1999 that the department had any reason to be suspicious about her work. That's when federal Judge Ralph Thompson lit into her for "untrue" testimony and the "blatant withholding of unquestionably exculpatory evidence" in the rape and murder trial of Alfred Brian Mitchell. (Thompson overturned the rape conviction but let the murder stand.) In March 2000 Gilchrist was put out to pasture at a police equine lab, where she says she had to do "demeaning tasks" like count test tubes...
...help illustrate forensic science in action, the ExperiMentors volunteers decided to script a kidnapping that the students would then spend the day unraveling. Dolan was followed on stage by a guest lecturer who mysteriously disappeared after volunteers lit several hydrogen balloons on fire. The explosion, a laser light show and Mission Impossible theme music indicated to the crowd that the guest lecturer was the victim of a kidnapping and the students were now charged with her recovery...