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...themselves the obvious question: Why now? It is easy to get sentimental about people power. But people power does not always prevail. Indeed, it rarely prevails. It was crushed in Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Tiananmen Square 1989--and Iraq 1991. Matched against tyranny at its point of maximum cruelty, people power is useless...
Jadwin Gym, with a capacity of 6,854, and the Palestra, with a maximum of 8,700, are the two biggest Ivy League arenas. For comparison, Lavietes Pavilion, the home of Harvard hoops, can seat only 2,195. Not coincidentally, the twin basketball behemoths regularly have the largest and most frenzied crowds of any league venue...
According to Suffolk District Attorney (D.A.) spokesman David Procopio, manslaughter carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, and kidnapping has a maximum sentence of life in prison...
...past, Harvard has not performed well enough in the NCAA regionals to send the maximum six men and six women to NCAA nationals, but Stinetorf is optimistic that this year will be different...
...been hard for us to compete against schools that send the maximum number of fencers,” she said. “Schools that qualify the maximum every year like Ohio State, Penn State, and Notre Dame are tough competition. I think this year we have a good chance to qualify the maximum and compete with them at nationals...