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CHICAGO--About all you'll find in the middle of the road, goes the old Southern saying, is yellow stripes and dead armadillos...
Five U.S. towns, a 14,420-foot-high Colorado mountain and a 20-mile-long glacier in southern Alaska share Harvard's moniker...
Jutting into southern Alaska's Prince William Sound, the Harvard Glacier, 1,500 feet thick and 20 miles long, fills the lefthand fork of the College Fjord. The righthand fork is, naturally, the Yale Glacier. Seven tributaries of the fjord are named after Ivy League sister schools, including Radcliffe...
...wartime France, Beckett joined a Resistance group; his jobs were to send coded messages abroad (some would say he did the same thing as a writer) and later, when he and his future wife Suzanne moved to the southern part of the country, to hide weapons. He earned the Croix de Guerre for exploits that were not in his nature; he once hid grenades and dynamite on his front porch, in plain sight, because he was afraid they'd go off inside...
Leyden took similar tactics to southern California schools, papering junior high campuses with hate material to provoke fighting between white and nonwhite kids. Days after a fight, he would ask white students, "Shouldn't there be a group for you?" Affectionately known as "Grandpa" because of his advanced age, Leyden led younger skinheads on recruiting drives, tossing White Aryan Resistance leaflets on doorsteps and giving racial comics to young teenagers on their way home from school...