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...Destruction is massive in Uri," an Indian army spokesman told TIME. "It's close to the epicenter. Initial reports are that not many houses are standing." As buildings crumbled, he added, gas pipes ruptured and fires swept the central market in the town just across the Line of Control on the Indian side of Kashmir. Simultaneously, landslides cut off Uri, and much of the surrounding area, from the world and swatted two buses full with passengers into a rocky mountain gorge. Sixteen Indian soldiers were buried alive in a bunker at Uri. The Police Inspector General of Police, Javed Mukhdoomi...
...They never explicitly told me Yo-Yo was going to play, but I thought it was a reasonable assumption to make,” says Cabot House Master Jay Harris. But any mumblings of disappointment were soon swept away by the music and the spirit of improvisation. As Julia I. Bertelsmann ’09 put it, “When you’re playing with people doing such amazing things with their instruments, it makes you feel freer with your...
...decades after World War II, as the Civil Rights Movement swept across the South, Motley helped prepare briefs for numerous school desegregation cases sponsored by the NAACP, including the epochal Brown v. Board of Education...
...week after being swept by Dartmouth for the first time in its history, the Harvard women’s volleyball team was again routed by the Big Green, falling 3-0 (30-24, 30-20, 30-23) on Friday night at the Malkin Athletic Center. Seeking revenge, the Crimson (2-8, 0-2 Ivy) spent all week preparing for its rematch against Dartmouth. But all of Harvard’s work was to no avail, as the Big Green (8-3, 2-0) posted 53 kills on .254 hitting to roll past the Crimson. The loss extended Harvard?...
...better days I found the dead man’s girlfriend standing at the site of the night’s fatal gunshots, her hands on her hips, scrutinizing the spot where the body had been found, half on sidewalk, half on grass. The scene had been swept clean of everything except an empty bag of Fritos...