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...window screen, the damage was concentrated around the 10-foot tall gash where the car penetrated the building. “At first I heard the squeal of tires,” said Scherer, who was on the second floor of the library. “The whole house shook. I went downstairs and the room was filled with smoke. It was hard to breathe.” Although the building, officially dubbed the John Hicks House, now serves as a House library, it has a rich history. Erected in 1762, it is the oldest house in Cambridge, according...
...said, “and that was a huge boost.” POWER OUTAGE The Crimson power play went 0-for-7 Friday night, scoreless on 15 man-advantage shots. “We’re not getting the bounces,” said Murphy as he shook his head about his team’s recent 2-for-45 skid. “We’re so close—just a few bounces.” D’Alba’s acrobatic saves quashed Harvard’s run during a third-period...
...jolt shook the passenger ferry Al Salam Boccaccio 98 during an overnight voyage across the Red Sea last week, stirring Girgis Rifaat awake in his cabin. "People began yelling 'Fire, fire!'" Rifaat, a 30-year-old Egyptian returning from his job as a salesman in Kuwait, told Time at a hospital in Hurghada. "I realized that the boat was going down." As the vessel listed precariously, Rifaat leapt overboard, swam to a lifeboat and waited 19 hours before being pulled out of the water by a helicopter. Most of the other 1,510 people thought to be on board, mainly...
...earthquake shook Israelis just as hard as it did Palestinians. Coming so soon after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon slipped into a coma and in the middle of Israel's own election campaign, the Hamas victory "has people sweating," a senior Israeli security official told TIME. "We had a plan for every eventuality in the Middle East except for this one." Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would not negotiate with a Palestinian government "if even part of it is an armed terrorist organization calling for Israel's destruction." The leader of the right-wing Likud Party, Benjamin Netanyahu...
...dropped out of high school at 17, but became a talented horsewoman and linguist. She renounced the Onassis name at the urging of her father, Thierry Roussel, at the age of 13, telling judges that she felt "great aversion" to all things Greek, but she later shook off Roussel's influence. A French playboy who married and then divorced Christina, Roussel used to manage Athina's fortune in concert with the foundation, though his own relations with its members were stormy - Roussel even accused Athina's Greek trustees of plotting to kidnap his daughter. Athina eventually bucked against his control...