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...device, opening the metal gates that sealed off the driveway. Suddenly, three men sprang from a blue Fiat 128 parked across the street, spraying the Alfa Romeo sedan with bullets. The driver yelled at his passenger to get down; the armored car's heavy metal plating and triple-thick bulletproof glass held true...
Half an hour after the attack, a Milan radio station received an anonymous phone call. "This is the Fighting Communist Party," said a man with a thick Roman accent. "We must claim the attempt on General Hunt, the guarantor of the Camp David agreements...
...made its fortune on a family-owned gold mine in an unnamed South American country. Each summer they retreat from the capital city to their country home, built near their gold mine and surrounded by profile fields of thistle. Each autumn, the thistles seed, the air gets too thick to breathe, and the Ventura family returns to the city...
More importantly, the victory thrusted Harvard right back into the thick of the Ivy League title race. Now 12-10 overall, 6-4 in the Ivies. Harvard finds itself--thanks to Brown and Penn losses on Saturday--positioned in a three-way tie for second-place, just one game behind the still league-leading Tigers. "We needed this one. It was a must victory," the Crimson's Arne Duncan said...
...after he underwent a bone-marrow transplant intended to fortify his body's defenses, he emerged from his germ-free cocoon. It was, quite literally, a touching moment. For the first time in his life, he was hugged and kissed by his mother. "She was amazed at how thick his hair was," reported a spokesman for Texas Children's Hospital. The patient's initial request: a Coke-the only one he ever...