Word: raids
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...taste that terror and excitement on the brink? "People are [taking risks] because everyday risk is minimized and people want to be challenged," says Joy Marr, 43, an adventure racer who was the only woman member of a five-person team that finished the 1998 Raid Gauloises, the granddaddy of all adventure races. This is a sport that requires several days of nonstop slogging, climbing, rappelling, rafting and surviving through some of the roughest terrain in the world. Says fellow adventure racer and former Army Ranger Jonathan Senk, 35: "Our society is so surgically sterile. It's almost like...
President Nathan M. Pusey '28, who ordered the raid, dismissed the demands with an official statement the night of the takeover...
...part of the takeover, the students forcibly removed all Harvard administrators from the building by 12:45 p.m. on April 9, 1969. Fourteen hours later, the protests were wrested out of the building by a massive police raid that led to more than 300 arrests, fractured bones and cerebral concussions...
...hour after they arrived, the police entered University Hall to remove the occupiers. The raid shed blood. Police action sent more than 40 students to the emergency rooms of University Health Services and other local hospitals...
This police raid threw the support of the majority of campus behind the SDS demonstrators; before the raid, many students were against the takeover of University Hall...