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...last pillars of the house crumbled in a roar. Earth and sky shook. The flames made a final, seething rally, and cast a heathen glow upon Roxanna’s swollen belly...
...June 12, 1982: At four that morning, while a boarder in the Santa Monica home of Leonie Haddad, she entered the bedroom of her sleeping landlady, straddled her and shook her awake, brandishing a foot-long serrated bread knife and whispering, "God has inspired me to kill you!" She attacked Haddad, Foster writes, "slicing her from the corner of her mouth to her ear ... Bettie stabbed Haddad four times in the chest, narrowly missing her heart... stabbed the hand eight times, severing the top of Haddad's third finger." When brought to court, "Bettie pleaded not guilty but changed...
According to Cigar Aficionado, nearly half of all U.S. Presidents smoked. Ulysses S. Grant never shook the cigar habit he picked up during the Civil War. William McKinley had a similar love of stogies, but like Obama, he never allowed himself to be photographed in the act. Theodore Roosevelt barred his daughter Alice from smoking in the White House, so she took her habit to the roof. Calvin Coolidge was known to offer cigars to Congressmen after White House breakfasts...
...Office of Career Services to propose changes to the timeline of the interview process. Along with Yale, Harvard holds its recruiting season several weeks after most other law schools in the country. This year, several events including Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy and the government bailout of AIG shook up financial markets in between the two recruiting seasons, causing firms that ordinarily reserve spots for Harvard students to reduce the number of hires...
...running, they are in serious trouble.”Singh jogged back to his hostel, and on his way, he saw ambulances and people with head wounds.After he returned, he later saw the attacks on the Taj Mahal Hotel.“There was a massive explosion that shook our chairs and smoke was billowing from the roof,” he said. As the Taj erupted in flames, Singh and his friends immediately boarded up all the windows facing the street, and turned out the lights. They stayed up all night listening to the news and trying to talk...