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...hundreds of students began filing down the steps of the War Memorial Chapel toward the drill field. Propped against a tree with a box of unlit candles at its base, the sign wavered in the wind. Clusters of two and three students stood together in silence. Slowly they began to line up to sign the board. ?You are in our prayers. We hurt for you. We will remember you forever,' signed one mourner in silver marker. "I'm still really in disbelief," says Stiltner. The shock of the day's shootings sank in, Hess said, as he carried the sign...
...movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco's Spain, the surrealist master Luis Buñuel, came to Mexico and made a string of startling social melodramas: Los Olvidados, Nazarin, The Exterminating Angel, Simon of the Desert. Among these giants, Infante stood proud...
...freshman Danny Mayer said. “Our ball-striking was pretty good, but our putting definitely could have been better.” After a seventh-place showing at Yale the weekend before, Mayer continued to find his name gracing the top ranks of the leaderboard. The freshman stood in third place at the end of the round after making four birdies and shooting an even-par 72. Though the course presented few challenges, its undulating greens often forced players to work hard to avoid a three-putt. “When you get a downhill putt...
That was where things stood until April 5, when Tennessee attorney general Robert Cooper, whose office has the power to approve or disapprove charitable arrangements, rejected the arranged sale because of the difference between $7 million and what Fisk could get on the open market. Now lawyers for both sides plan to sit down in a judge's chambers to see if a new deal can be worked out. Eventually, Fisk fully expects to be taking something to market...
...with her basic need for survival, are both pointless and profound—but then again, so are those she sees outside. “I thought: the vanity of writing, the vanity of destruction,” she says. “I thought: because I wrote, I stood my ground...I thought: the two acts are related, writing and destruction, hiding and being found. Then I sat on the toilet and closed my eyes. Then I fell asleep. Then I woke up.” But “The Savage Detectives” is much more than...