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...Board recently made headlines by forcing the resignation of 65-year-old Maryland Chancellor John S. Toll in an effort to bring younger, more energetic administrators to the school. But White said in a statement that the board's tough tactics had encroached on his authority...
...five-game match, however, took its toll on Harvard. Colgate proceeded to sweep the Crimson...
...boats in 1939 included only 22 large oceangoing craft -- the submarines not only torpedoed without warning but also seeded Britain's sea- lanes with thousands of magnetic mines. In the first four months of the war, the Germans sank 215 ships (748,000 tons); by the following spring the toll was 460. One sub even slipped into the supposedly impregnable Scottish base at Scapa Flow and torpedoed the battleship Royal Oak, with a loss of 833 lives...
...carry a cigarette-style & warning label advising women that alcohol and pregnancy do not mix. But for women who are addicted to alcohol, the need to drink often overcomes caution and reason. Until better ways are found to identify and treat alcoholics, they will continue to inflict a devastating toll on their children...
...November 1938, after a Jewish student assassinated the Third Secretary at the German embassy in Paris, the Nazis staged a nationwide pogrom, burning Jewish homes and synagogues and smashing so many windows that the rampage became known as Kristallnacht (death toll: 91). Yet again the Western Allies protested but did nothing. London maintained its strict limits on Jews' going to British-ruled Palestine, and the U.S. resisted any increase in its immigration quotas...