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...with a friend, I returned to Harvardland to finish up my work before the much-anticipated Freshman Formal that night. I checked my mail in the monstrosity we call a Science Center, and then set out to cross the Yard and head home. What I saw should not have struck...
Later, I got to thinking about my strange reaction to this seemingly unimportant scene. It slowly began to occur to me why I was struck by these children: they are so rare to see these days. We college students are swallowed for four years into a Generation X black hole. We don't see anyone younger or anyone older; not an old man or a small child. We are stuck in an unending rerun of the "Breakfast Club." Every once in a while I need...
...turned down a $25,000 check from PepsiCo because the deal is not yet finalized, Blais said. But because of a deal struck with the council, HDS offered the council the money two weeks ago in anticipation that the deal and the check would be forthcoming...
...organization's master bombmaker. Yet when the fury burst forth, its savagery was stunning. First, in two explosions spaced 45 min. apart, Hamas suicide-bombers claimed 26 victims, first on a bus in Jerusalem, then at a hitchhiking post outside coastal Ashkelon. Then, exactly seven days later, the militants struck again, eviscerating another bus in central Jerusalem, this time killing at least...
DIED. HAING S. NGOR, 55, doctor-actor; after being shot outside his home; in Los Angeles. No one missed the irony of Ngor's death: he had survived four years in the slaughterhouse of Khmer Rouge Cambodia during the '70s, only to be struck down in the violence of an American city. In between he won an Oscar for his portrayal of fellow survivor and photojournalist Dith Pran in the 1984 movie The Killing Fields. Police are looking into whether Ngor, an outspoken benefactor of L.A.'s Cambodian-refugee community, was a victim of robbery or politics...