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After half a year of nonstop scrutiny and discussion of his leadership, University President Lawrence H. Summers threw a changeup last Friday night...
...embodied those yellow flowers—that spark of gold that made anyone who saw it glad to be on this earth. He achieved in a lifetime what the poem reminds us most can never achieve. He was, above all, his family’s golden boy, but he threw light on anyone who touched him. We will miss him so much...
...this point, Parkfield's seismic history seems suggestive. For more than a century, the area just south of the drill site produced magnitude-6 earthquakes on a roughly 22-year cycle--or so it seemed in the mid-1980s, when a USGS team threw a net of instruments over the area, hoping to catch the next iteration. The last quake occurred in 1966, so scientists figured the next would come around 1988. Instead, the 1966 quake was followed by a 38-year pause. Some speculate that another earthquake, which occurred on a nearby thrust fault in 1983, reset the seismic...
Eight months after former Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson was convicted of manslaughter in the 2003 stabbing death of Cambridge resident Michael D. Colono, the judge in his trial threw out the verdict...
...dragooned him and 14 other villagers as porters. Three were shot dead, while Wi Ling was forced at gunpoint into a suspected minefield. A month after he was conscripted, he stepped on a mine, which blew most of his left leg off. The Burmese troops abandoned him. "They just threw me away," he says...