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...Then, shortly before midnight, someone burst into the Sago Baptist church and announced that there were 12 survivors. Hundreds of people surged out the door. Church bells rang. For a brief spell, it appeared, there would be a repeat of the stunning 2002 rescue of nine Pennsylvania miners, who had survived more than three days underground after their mine had flooded...
Late yesterday afternoon fire alarm bells rang at 1737 Cambridge Street, forcing the last students still around before break to stream out of their classes in the Knafel Building of Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) and mill about a fire truck while firefighters inspected the building...
...impenetrability of a tank. Yet Ratzinger's quotidian reality was essentially that of an exalted Catholic Church bureaucrat. Working the day shift at Church headquarters for 23 years meant studying and safeguarding the Gospels, not preaching it. On March 31, Ratzinger was in his Vatican office when the phone rang with bad news. John Paul's long and brave battle with failing health looked to be nearing its end, and as the dean of the College of Cardinals it would be Ratzinger's duty to formally notify his brother Cardinals once the Pope had died. Ratzinger hurried into a black...
Fee’s cell phone rang. “Yes? Yes, Officer, Fee here. Right-oh. Yes, we lost a member of our team today. Yes, on I-95…that’s right. No, no, I don’t think anyone can really pick her up at the moment, you see, this is a very important...she has a broken leg? Hm. And is it set already? Okay. Sounds good. Do you think we could just take the cast off for, say, an hour or so? Just kidding! Haha! Okay, I’m sending...
...canine mascot, Handsome Dan, knows how to pick sides, choosing to take a stroll to visit the eventual victors at the end of halftime.And in the stands, Harvard students yet again out-heckled their blue-blooded counterparts. Redundant shouts of “Harvard sucks” rang hollow against “Where’s your bulldog?” and “Yale starts wars,” the latter in response to the ridiculous halftime show in which some blue people running around the field pretended to shoot down a bunch of red people running...