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...somehow most of the hostages managed to keep their heads. A mother traveling with her daughter pushed her child to the floor as soon as she saw the hooded silhouettes of the French commandos. "In spite of the gunshots," she says, "we were reassured by the orders they were shouting to us, the impression that the situation was in hand. We crawled to a rear door, jumped into the void and landed on a chute." Another passenger, traveling with his family, saw a mobile ramp full of gendarmes pass his window and knew an attack was imminent. "I told...
...plunging into a cold peace. Why sow the seeds of mistrust?" The Russian President also accused Washington of overweening arrogance in playing the role of sole superpower. In his words, "It is a dangerous delusion to suppose that the destinies of continents and the world community in general can somehow be managed from one single capital...
Harvard has Radcliffe as an invaluable resource for women, which is why it is even more surprising that women are somehow slighted out of the science fields here. Not only do women fail the QRR test more often than their ratio would suggest, but women also constitute a very small number of the upper-level first-year math classes, Math...
...manager, I charted the team's eight wins and two losses. What I remember most about that season is the pact the team made on the bus on a snowy day, coming back from somewhere like Stoneham, probably after a win. We made a pact that someday, somewhere, somehow that our team would win a basketball state championship. We all knew it was possible, but I can remember at the time thinking that none of us would have blinked twice if it did not become a reality...
...pulled through, somehow. When Kevin LaPierre sank a huge three-pointer (he had the habit of making big three-pointers when it really mattered) to tie the game, everyone knew it could still be ours...