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...television to that point. More than 50,000 fans and curiosity-seekers had applied for seats in the studio audience, of whom only 728 could be accommodated. I was one of the reporters watching from the back of the theater. (Maybe this actually was a dream assignment.) What struck us journalists that night was the noise that engulfed the Beatles as they trotted out onstage - intense, high-pitched, piercing. We agreed that it was louder, more frenzied, than Frank Sinatra's fans had ever been, or even Elvis Presley's. And it never let up: you could hardly hear...
...goal came with 24.8 seconds left in overtime—and at 9:36 p.m. local time. Two hours, 24 minutes later, the clock struck midnight in New Haven, marking another event in Zappala’s life that was far, far removed from hockey...
Following the Crimson’s initial goal, Princeton’s youth struck early and often. Freshman Kim Pearce scored an assist and two goals, while fellow classmate Liz Keady notched a pair of her own, all within the first two periods of the game...
Just over 2:30 into the second half, he struck again. With his team trailing 45-40, Toppert received the ball on the left wing and fired up a three. Harvard junior captain Jason Norman rushed out to put a hand in Toppert’s face, but fouled him in the process. The shot fell and so did the subsequent free throw—a four-point play that put Cornell into position to snatch the lead back from the Crimson...
...Taliban claimed responsibility for a blast last week in which a man wearing an explosives belt leaped onto a Canadian armored vehicle in a crowded Kabul street, killing a soldier and injuring a dozen civilians. The next day, while officials were attending the soldier's funeral, the Taliban struck again. A suicide bomber crashed an explosives-packed taxi into two British army vehicles, killing one soldier, wounding three others and taking the life of an Afghan civilian. A Taliban official, Latif Hakeemi, calling TIME from an undisclosed location, vowed that a wave of suicide attacks will follow. "There...