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...earthquake that virtually destroyed San Francisco in 1906. The eyewitness accounts read like the tall tales of Baron Munchhausen. The ground rippled with waves as though it were an ocean. The Mississippi River raged with waterfalls and rapids. Fountains of sand erupted in gritty geysers. Shock waves, pulsing outward for hundreds of miles, wrecked boats in the Charleston, S.C., harbor, cracked masonry in Cincinnati, and caused church bells to peal and buildings to shake as far away as New York City and Boston...
...being used to play the part of a grandmother. In the past he has directed performances of The Elephant Man where he used a handsome male actor to play the role of John Merrick. Hogan says the actor was "representing what was inside the character rather than his outward appearance...
Hill's interest is the various and ever changing ways to define success. At first the story seems to look outward, at how anyone's ambitions reveal his or her class and background. But the focus gradually shifts inward, to a deepening psychological exploration of a writer of anonymous suicide threats, and reveals how much a successful person may depend on the reaction of others to provide a missing sense of self-worth. At the center of Hill's plot is an outdoor-extravaganza staging of a medieval "mystery" play -- a cunning hint from Hill that his work, like...
Benjamin Dattner '92, on his way home from an Outward Bound trip in Utah, was taken to South Fulton Medical Center in Atlanta for treatment following an altercation with Wahlberg, Atlanta police said...
...enforced." He won a significant victory early Saturday when the United Nations Security Council voted 13 to 0 (Cuba and Yemen abstaining) for a strongly worded resolution authorizing nations with naval forces in the area to use "such measures . . . as may be necessary . . . to halt all inward and outward maritime" commerce. It was the first time in its 45-year history that the U.N. had authorized force to back up economic sanctions...