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Despite McDonald’s dedication, the demands on his time took their toll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBHA Director Leaves After Four-Year Tenure | 10/18/2002 | See Source »

...Harvard’s tennis players, who are consistently ranked among the top in the nation and rely even more on individual instruction during the off-season than other athletes, the rule could take a toll on Harvard’s national competitiveness...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athletes Protest Break In Practice | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...rescue workers made their way into Kuta's destroyed Sari Club, the popular watering hole for vacationing Westerners that was the epicenter of one blast, the full extent of the wreckage and casualties were just coming clear; initial reports put the death toll at 3, then 15, then 28, then 50 and then 182. On the scene, shaken witnesses blurted out fragmentary descriptions: the crumpled remains of eight surrounding buildings, four charred bodies in a parked car, the mangled heaps of two vehicles that were flung 10 meters by the blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Hits Hard in Indonesia | 10/13/2002 | See Source »

...gift to the school in 1932 by University President A. Lawrence Lowell and weighs 5,000 pounds. Its intricate daily schedule is run by a computer which connects to a motorized ringing-device. When a service takes place, or when journalistic curiosity must be catered to, the bell is tolled by hand. This sound of the bell is referred to as a “toll.” All computer-controlled sounds are “rings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quasimodo 2.0 | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...left unsolved," admits commission president Hang Sang Beom. "This is a blow against democratic reform." (The infamous 1980 Kwangju massacre was investigated by another body that ended its work last year. The government paid compensation of $190 million to victims and victims' families, although critics say the official death toll of fewer than 200 people is grossly understated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets and Lies | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

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