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...Brits set the White House on fire. (Dolley Madison had to smuggle out the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington before the British troops got to the mansion.) Only the outside walls remained standing - and that was probably because of a timely thunderstorm that helped contain the fire. Scorch marks from that blaze are still apparent in some walls in the White House...
...highway at 120 m.p.h. (We tested the car in Europe.) On the winding back roads in the beautiful Argonne area of France, the ride was tight and sporty yet still luxe, at least in the front seats. The interior also features heat-deflecting leather so the seat won't scorch you when you leave the top down. The six-speed manual transmission is buttery, particularly on the downshift. In town, a new feature prevents the car from rolling backward when you take your foot off the brake to accelerate after you've stopped at a light. The automatic has optional...
WESTWOOD, Calif.—Most Los Angeles first-timers are given their requisite 15 minutes of fame, but the visiting Harvard men’s soccer team only got 1:55.That was all it took for UCLA midfielder Sal Zizzo to scorch Harvard’s left side and fire a shot into the far post past Crimson junior goalkeeper Adam Hahn, giving UCLA an early 1-0 lead. “It’s not ideal to give up a goal in the first two minutes,” Hahn said. “I think...
...happened that bloody November morning. The spot where the IED went off, killing Lance Corporal Miguel Terazzas and starting the chain of terrible events, has been repaired with fresh concrete. The four houses where the tragedy unfolded have recently been patched up. The bullet holes have been filled, the scorch marks from FRAG grenades painted over and walls repaired. ?A stranger would not know anything special had happened there,? says Taher Thabet, a local journalism student and human-rights worker whose video first brought the Haditha massacre to TIME's attention. ?But those of us who live there, we look...
Though Harvard needed a late third-period, power-play goal from junior defenseman Ashley Banfield to prevent its first loss of the season on Friday night, the entire offense came out to scorch Duluth on Saturday. Junior winger Nicole Corriero had a pair of goals and two assists...