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This Saturday was Homecoming for Dartmouth. The evening before, a Promethean bonfire lit the cold sky amidst shouts of "Harvard sucks" and "No mercy...
...yesterday, about 20 protesters gathered at a street corner one block away from the Main Building, for a quiet demonstration against China's policies towards Tibet. Organized by several Tibetan groups, the mini-rally attracted nearly as many reporters as protesters. But as the sun dropped in the sky by late afternoon, more and more people joined the swelling crowd...
...term experimental aircraft carries an ominous suggestion of danger. If it's experimental, it might still have glitches that could send you plummeting out of the sky in a hurry. Besides, nonmilitary experimental planes are often built from kits out in the pilot's garage or barn. It's pretty obvious that you would need to have a death wish--or at least a reckless soul...
...Meanwhile, on the other side of the world: There were rumblings in Asia, and it had nothing to do with the dim sum. While Wall Street paraded record profits, in Hong Kong the sky was falling. Efforts to prop up the currency rocked the Hang Seng index, and the effect was more catastrophic than any galactic collision. By Friday, the Dow was as bitten as a Marv Albert chew-toy. Looks like George Soros has a lot more to answer...
...seem more spectacular when they then walked back to the main stage to perform several last crowd-pleasers. The lights and magic around them really took off, and the ends of some of the last few numbers were punctuated with incredible pyrotechnic displays that completely lit up the sky. The encore brought both the simply classic and the fantastic to a maximum. While the group played "Brown Sugar," one of their most beloved singles, the air filled with gigantic geysers of confetti, which completely blanketed the stadium. Throughout all of this, the simple, pure rock and roll that...