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...next thing I know, there’s a massive fight in the courtyard, and all of a sudden I saw the police trying to break up the fight,” Whitfield said. “At this point, everybody was screaming because this was the second fight in a row. The police said, ‘everybody needs to get out of this courtyard,’ and people finally started listening and everybody started to run out of the main gate...
Even with Harvard’s sudden preponderance of Red Sox fans, turnout in campus JCRs was surprisingly lackluster for this year’s baseball playoffs. But, really, who has time to watch a whole baseball game nowadays? Especially as national networks take over for playoff broadcasts, games are getting so long that they rarely end on the same day they began. Major League Baseball should be happy that its postseason can inspire solidarity among even casual observers (the cons of the “bandwagon” aside). But when fandom requires such a time commitment, it scares...
...hard way on Oct. 2 when, in an open letter to members of the Undergraduate Council’s Executive Board, he announced the disbandment of the UC party grant program, which provided thousands of dollars every week for private parties on campus. Both the abrupt tone and the sudden timing of Pilbeam’s missive sent shock waves through the community, stoking the flames of open-list debates and inspiring conjecture about the machinations of the College...
...just enjoying the nature and everything was so beautiful.”The afternoon hike turned unimaginably tragic. A log on which the couple was sitting broke loose, sending the pair tumbling down a steep hill. As they fell, the log rolled over them, killing Rossel.The sudden death of Rossel, 32, just two months after her wedding and a month before she was to receive her doctorate in anthropology, left colleagues and friends devastated. “Stine was the kind of beautiful that radiated from inside out,” said fellow archaeology graduate student Gideon Hartman...
...started out as an OK weekend, except the San Diego Chargers weren't playing and the weather had been in the bone chilling 60s. Then came the first flames, in one area appropriately named the Witch near Ramona. All of a sudden places we long-timers never knew even had a name became labeled. The new monikers still don't help any of us know exactly where the neighborhoods are. But we can smell them now. They are choking us. Within 24 hours, nine fires were ravaging the San Diego area. Paradise was Apocalypse...