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Saturday's win at Harvard Stadium is the first time in 10 years Harvard (1-0,1-0 Ivy) has struck such fear into the hearts of opposing players. The Crimson dominated every facet of its season-opener, from offense to defense to special teams. The score would have perhaps been even more lopsided-it was 38-7 at halftime-had Harvard Coach Tim Murphy not sat his starters in the third quarter...
...spring asking donors for a tax-deductible $10,000 to help fix up the Vice President's residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory. The letter arrived on desks all around Washington amid stories about the Democratic Party's intense scouring for cash in the 1996 campaign; it struck even hardened Washingtonians as audacious. The signature on the letter? Peter Knight...
Taneka Jones, a psychology senior, reported that she was assaulted by an MSU police officer after she was pulled over on Nov. 23, 1996. Jones' sister, Alicia, said at a Monday press conference that during the incident Taneka Jones was struck on the head and back with a blunt object and her head was banged against the police car. The conference was held at Owen Graduate Hall...
...Fayed brothers' applications for citizenship stalled in the early '90s following the release of the report. It did not matter that they had paid millions of pounds in taxes annually, or that all four of al Fayed's children by his second wife are British. So al Fayed struck back in 1994 and revealed to the Guardian that for more than two years he had supplied Tory Members of Parliament with cash and free stays at the Ritz Hotel in exchange for political favors. Only afterward did the government officially turn down the brothers' citizenship request, without explanation--a decision...
That's how she struck me when I met her and as I watched her life. She was tough. There was the worn and weathered face, the abrupt and definite speech. We think saints are soft, ethereal, pious and meek. But some saints are steamrollers, and great saints are great organizers, great operators, great combatants in the world...