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...bench for another year and a half. Only after Japan surprised the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, killing 2,433 Americans, did the country put aside its isolationism. More defeats followed at first, but after an improbable victory near the Pacific island of Midway on June 4, 1942, the U.S. began to push Japan back. Two years later, on June 6, 1944, the world's largest amphibious invasion, on the shores of Normandy, did the same to the Germans. But no matter who was winning the war, humanity was losing. On Jan. 20, 1942, Nazi leaders...
Harvard scored five of its seven goals off rebounds, including its first four as it built a 4-0 lead midway through the second period. Botterill got the train rolling, banging home her own rebound after a breakaway attempt two minutes into the game...
Rebound goals from freshman phenom Julie Chu and captain Kalen Ingram gave the Crimson a 3-0 advantage after the first frame. Sophomore winger Nicole Corriero banged home a rebound midway through the second period to extend the lead...
...much a yarn as a boiled leather strap, "Nightmare Alley" (Fantagraphics Books; 134 pp.; $14.95) tells the story of Stanton Carlisle, who we first meet as an ambitious assistant to a phony medium on the traveling midway. As drawn by Spain, Stanton has the good looks and blank expression of a department store mannequin, and the same sense of morals. Coldy ambitious and hotly lustful, he learns the medium's secrets and begins a "two-a-day" mentalist vaudeville act with Molly, a virginal looker with a thing for daddy. Never satisfied, Stanton tricks up a house and puts...
Josefowitz and Chopra also presented an alternative proposal, which they said they view as a compromise with the Faculty’s plan. It would require students to update their Plans of Study midway through each semester, the time at which the current proposal would have them register for classes...