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Faculty, students and alumni met in Holden Chapel on May 6, 1875, to end the color war once and for all. Though the group was temporarily deadlocked between magenta and crimson, The Magenta reported that the tide of public opinion turned after a speech by “the man who caused all the trouble.” The unnamed speaker said that a decade earlier he had bought magenta handkerchiefs for the crew team only because of a lack of the crimson variety. He “completely silenced the skeptics,” The Magenta reported. A large...
...their lives aren't who they purported to be. Washington, in his Oscar-winning role in Training Day, portrays a murderous, on-the-take narcotics detective. His performance is charged with lightning, but he was better in his more heroic roles in The Hurricane, Crimson Tide and Malcolm X. Oscar passed him by for those performances--just as they did Will Smith this year, the one black actor to be nominated for a heroic character...
...announced last week that the 15.4 million freeze-dried doses left over from the early '70s can be diluted fivefold--stretching the stockpile to more than 75 million--and still remain potent. Meanwhile, a French drug company offered up a forgotten cache of 85 million more doses. That should tide us over until year's end, when new vaccines...
...Martyrs Brigade, linked with Arafat's own Fatah organization, detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv coffee bar Saturday night, killing himself and wounding more than 30 Israelis in a stark reminder that even an Israeli military operation that has sparked worldwide alarm has not managed to stem the tide of terror...
...pressure may not be the only reason for Sharon's climb-down. His failure to stem the escalating tide of violence had left him teetering in the face of plummeting poll numbers and mounting challenges from both right and left. Following the U.S. line allows him to reposition himself in the center, alongside his Labor Party coalition partners on whose support he will depend to stave off the collapse of his government as right-wingers defect - and hold his most dangerous challenger, Benjamin Netanyahu...