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Despite the defeat, Harvard swimmers managed to shatter five Cornell pool records and one school mark, setting a record in every event that the team...
...dive to the sidewalk as the plate glass windows of One Potato, Two Potato shatter into a thousand tiny bits...
FOOTNOTE: *Each unit on the Richter scale indicates about a 30-fold jump in energy released. A quake of magnitude 2 is hardly perceptible; a 5-pointer can shatter dishes and windows; the great San Francisco quake of 1906 is estimated to have been an 8.3; and the most powerful quake ever recorded, off the Chilean coast in May 1960, reached...
Students were also evacuated from the 18-story Mather House tower beginning at about noon. Senior Tutor Terry Shaller said that although windows there are made of shatter-resistant safety glass, students were told to tape them up as a precautionary measure...
...weakening its tired family bosses; impatient younger Mafiosi are killing each other in their brutal reach for power. From without, federal and state authorities seem to be putting aside old rivalries to gang up on the gangsters in a new drive to put their leaders behind bars and shatter their murderous ways of conducting business. There were no fewer than 3,118 indictments against organized-crime figures in the nation last year, and 2,194 convictions. Last week a rash of arrests and the preparation of new charges against the five Mafia families operating in New York City threatened...