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Stockman was lucky: he was in the right place and in the right party at the right time. But he had no special friendships or political connections to vault him to his prominence. He simply knew more than anyone else about how to go about dismantling the federal monster. He calls this resource "My knowledge base," and it comes from a decade of awesome study and work. Stockman, using his experience at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government as a gauge, believes that he has accumulated the equivalent of four or five Ph.D.s. Others would judge...
...over at the pole vault, freshman Gus Spanos racked up the first varsity victory of his career. The event would normally have been forced indoors by the rain, but Yale's Coxe Cage is under renovation. Undaunted, Harvard vaulter Dave Randle took second place, leaving top honors to Spanos...
...field events, Dave Randall continued to reach for pole vault heaven, winning at 14 feet, while Garth Andrade grabbed another first in the javelin with a toss of 197 feet, 7 inches. And in the steeplechase, which combines lots of track and a little swimming. Bruce Weber fought a tough early stretch to run his second fastest time of the year, winning...
...head and forced him into a white van crudely painted and taped to look like a Mountain Bell telephone service truck. Four gunmen warned Virgil to cooperate or they would shoot his wife. Grainger came, then David Harris, branch operations supervisor. The gunmen needed both to unlock the vault. Less than 20 minutes later the thieves had driven away with $3.3 million in cash, which the FBI believes is the biggest bank heist in U.S. history...
Shaw went first, marching silently into the night. When he was about 200 yds. from the fort, the Confederates opened a withering fire. Shaw kept marching. Just behind him, men began to stumble and fall. By the light of the explosions, Shaw's men saw him vault onto the parapet of the fort, saw his sword held high, saw him crumple...