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...Crimson swept through the tournament with at least one and sometimes two Harvard players in the finals of every division...
...weighing up to five tons and measuring nearly 40 feet in length, died in a silty washout. At least two albertosaurs, sharp-toothed scavengers about half T. rex's size, fed on the carcass, leaving a few of their teeth behind. Within months a river overflowed its banks and swept the bones away, eventually covering them with a three-foot $ layer of silt, which preserved them for eternity--and Stan Sacrison...
...most desperate moments of his life, a severely burned Sumner Redstone saved himself by clinging to a window ledge with his right handand counting to 10 over and over again as flames swept through his room in a Boston hotel fire. "My legs were burned to my arteries," he recalls. "I got to a window, and it wouldn't open. I got to another one and hung by my hands. It seemed like a lifetime." Despite 60 hours of burn surgery, doctors doubted that Redstone would ever walk again. His tendons were destroyed, his little finger partly amputated...
...head," said a task-force member. At one point, members pushed Magaziner to lay out the plan -- as it then stood -- in a two-page memo, but he resisted the idea, warning colleagues that too many details were leaking. In what some took as divine intervention, a flu epidemic swept through the task force in late spring, temporarily sidelining dozens of ! participants. Even Magaziner, who was bearing up better than most, caught walking pneumonia. Late one night, while toiling over financing provisions so arcane that even he found them confusing, Magaziner quipped, "Next time, I'm voting for Perot...
...charges and countercharges of corruption swept through the Russian government, President Boris Yeltsin suspended his Vice President and archrival, Alexander Rutskoi. He also temporarily dismissed First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Shumeiko, a powerful supporter of Yeltsin's economic reforms, at his own request so Shumeiko could defend himself against corruption charges...