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...shrugged helplessly. The Inquisitor interrupted, asking her, "Now, was the connection actually made at Seneca Falls?" She replied something like, "Well, not in the platform, but in the speeches made outside." She then turned to me an asked to name the women who had made this link. I shook my head. She told me it was the Frick sisters, or something like that. She went right into the Great Awakening question...
...Kleist's death was his first striking success. The echo of the two shots fired beside the Wannsee shook people out of their lethargy; some obscure instinct told them that this death had meaning, even at a time when human life counted for so little. Today, more than a century and a half later, we have well-nigh forgotten the untold thousands slaughtered in the course of Napoleon's mad struggle for power, while the echo of the shots fired beside the Wannsee still rings in our ears ... But it was not until the hundredth anniversary of Kleist...
Thomas G. Pownall, 61, chairman of Martin Marietta and a survivor of last fall's great merger battle among Bendix, Allied and Martin Marietta, has emerged as a business folk hero. On the New York Stock Exchange floor a few days ago, traders eagerly shook his hand and told him that he had fundamentally altered the merger climate by proving that a takeover target could fight back and survive. At least three books are now being written on the whole saga, and several business schools are preparing courses on it. Pownall has turned down dozens of speaking invitations, including...
Committing several crucial mental errors, the uninspired Harvard squad allowed the smaller and slower Bruin squad to jump out to a quick lead yesterday, and then swapped goals with Brown to fight to a 5-5 halftime tie. But the laxwomen shook off their lethargy in time to explode for nine unanswered goals in the game's final 20 minutes...
...distance events, the Crimson was just as successful. Sophomore Cliff Sheehan edged out senior Adam Dixon to capture the 1500 and then watched as Dixon edged out Eric Schuler in the 1500. Dixon and Schuler shook off Yale's Mark Atkeson as they rounded the last lap and then the Crimson duo matched each other stride for stride until Dixon outkicked Schuler down the stretch...