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...Vrioni continues excitedly, student leaders "started to print lists, and I was one of them, running all over and collecting signatures." From the lists sprang a new political party. "We had a congress in December of 1992, after the democratic party won the elections. In that congress the chairman was selected, and right after the congress I was selected the secretary-general of the Youth Democratic Forum. The chairman was sort of symbolic, so I was the one who executed everything, so the decisions were absolutely mine...
That's one theory at least. What matters under the laws of natural selection is that Lucy and her cousins thrived and passed their genes on to the next evolutionary generation. Between 3 million and 2 million years B.P., a healthy handful of descendants sprang from the A. afarensis line, upright primates that were similar to Lucy in overall body design but different in the details of bone structure. Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus, Paranthropus boisei -- all flourished in Africa. But in the evolutionary elimination tournament, the two Paranthropus species eventually lost out. Only A. africanus, most scientists believe, survived...
...dark complexioned, Staples noticed he inspired fear in whites when he approached on the sidewalk. At first he sought to reassure them by whistling Vivaldi. Then he found malicious glee in frightening them in a game he called "scatter the pigeons." One night he hid in the shadows, then sprang in front of a white couple: "The two of them stood frozen as I bore down on them. I felt a surge of power: these people were mine . . . If I had been younger, with less to lose, I'd have robbed them." Instead Staples shouted good evening and strolled away...
...seems an understatement to say that theidea which sprang from the minds of men likePresident Lowell and Professors Henderson,Whitehead, and Lowes, has had influence of greatsignificance in American higher education, even ifit has not resulted in an example of how tocircumvent the rigidity of doctoral requirementsas President Lowell had hoped."Crimson File PhotoAMARTYA...
...game where momentum was the determining factor, the referee's whistle helped decide the outcome. Eric Hallman was whistled for the third period's first penalty, a slash at 11:10, and Harvard's five-on-four once again sprang into action; Farrell got his stick on a Derek Maguire shot for a tip-in goal at 11:31, and the Crimson were never seriously threatened again...