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...then I got the interview. It was an inauspicious start, as I’d nearly forgotten and arrived five minutes late. I walked into 1414 Mass. Ave and shook hands with my interviewer, a second-year analyst and Harvard class of 2003. He asked me about my favorite courses (marine bio), my experience at The Crimson (exhausting), and which key I envisioned myself as on the keyboard (the “[”). He handed me his business card, smiled, and then casually dropped the bomb...
...draws. Then World Chess Federation President Florencio Campomanes, a close friend of Karpov's, abruptly stopped play because, he said, players, officials and organizers were exhausted. The real reason, many insiders charged, was that the champion was physically and psychologically frazzled, ripe for a humiliating defeat. An enraged Kasparov shook his fist: "They are trying to deprive me of my chance!" Later he sneeringly told the German magazine Der Spiegel: "Karpov views the title 'world champion' as a natural prefix to his family name...
...people dead and missing. The initial Nevado del Ruiz blast sent steam and millions of tons of ash into the Andean air, but the debris was followed by almost no lava. About 90 minutes after the initial detonation, there was a second. It was so forceful that it shook the air in Cali, 150 miles to the southwest. Said a civil defense worker in that city: "At first I thought it might be a terrorist bombing in our neighborhood...
...different directions at an average speed of several inches a year, the plates collide, dive under and buckle against one another, crinkling up into a mountain range here, yanking apart to form a rift valley or oceanic ridge there. Such tectonic clashing was responsible for the violent earthquake that shook Mexico City two months ago, when the Cocos plate of the Pacific, temporarily stuck in its slow but inexorable plunge under the North American plate, suddenly jarred loose and lurched ahead. Last week's burst involved a similar movement of plates, but the result was entirely different. Extending along most...
...weeks earlier bestowed on South Africa's State President P.W. Botha. "Had it not been for the Marcos family," Falwell told an audience that included the First Couple, government supporters and officials, "the chances are that the freedoms you enjoy today would not be here." Falwell later shook his finger at the Reagan Administration for "bellyaching" about the need for financial and military reform in the Philippines and demanded that after the announced elections the U.S. "get behind the country with unswerving support...