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Harbor, who had already committed to Florida St., suffered a vicious sack and permanently damaged the already tenuous ligaments in his right knee. When Harbor’s football career was permanently ended, all eyes immediately turned to Moxon—who just happened to be reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five behind the covers of his playbook...
European settlers’ fear of death at Mau Mau’s hands ignited a vicious colonial response that is damning, to be sure. But Britain’s colonial empire in East Africa was not an unambiguously evil empire. In what is today Tanzania, immediately south of Kenya, and where fewer settlers lived, the British replacement of the German colonial power in the wake of World War I saved the lives of many Africans, who were oppressed and persecuted substantially more by the German government. There, the British used their might to finally put an end to slavery...
This chain began in January of 2002, when former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 chose to leave Harvard, citing an October 2001 meeting with Summers that West characterized in an interview with the New York Times as “authoriz[ing] vicious attacks on my integrity and my work based on my politics.” Though Summers later said that he regretted any misunderstandings, the damage was done. By providing an example of where a disagreement with Summers could lead, Summers’ interaction with West in many ways laid the groundwork...
...captain Lindsey Wilkins, playing at No. 2, ground out a long first game against Amy Gross but lost it 9-7. Gross, powered by a vicious two-handed backhand, won the next two games 9-6, 9-1 to take the match victory...
...minute. The magic: digital technology makes it possible to economically print custom copies of anything at almost any volume--books, flyers, bills. "It's a reasonable thing for Kodak to do," says Jack Kelly, an analyst with Goldman Sachs. "The competition isn't as vicious." Barbara Pellow, chief marketing officer of Kodak's Graphic Communications Group, points out that the customers Kodak will target--like direct marketers who want to customize their flyers or retail chains that need variable posters--represent a $30 billion market that's growing at a 12% clip. Once again, Kodak's recently acquired portfolio...