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...Trail Sharpshooter skirmish lines El Pozo Hill Aguadores River San Juan River To El Caney Gatling guns Trail Road Observation balloon Factory Blockhouse Barbed wire U.S. artillery Cavalry units Spanish retreat...
...team honors.LOOK MA, TWO HANDS On a squad with freshman wide receiver Alex Breaux (below) and sophomore quarterback Liam O’Hagan, the leadership of seniors like captain Erik Grimm was invaluable. The more experienced players on the team kept the Crimson from collpasing in down-to-the-wire games, as Harvard came from behind to upset eventual Ivy champion Brown in double overtime and capped its season with a triple-overtime thriller at the Yale Bowl to win the 122nd edition of The Game.CROUCHING CRIMSON Senior Melissa Anderson and classmate Eva Wang led Harvard to another undefeated...
...Today, the equivalent of that AP machine runs in a billion web browsers. And anyone can send reports out on the wire. The news may be no more cheerful than it was a quarter-century ago, but it is remarkably more accessible. It’s also more open to being influenced by everyday people—and will remain so, unless we screw up the Internet the way we’ve screwed up so many other things. I remind myself of this any time I get nostalgic for the sound of typewriter keys...
...Outside the courtroom, there was little sympathy for the son of a Baptist preacher who created a business dynamo that crashed in late 2001, or for his protege, Jeffrey Skilling, 52, who himself faces 185 years for his 19 out of 28 guilty counts - including conspiracy, securities and wire fraud. ?It was a moral victory. Now we hope to get them an economic victory,? said Steve Berman, one of the attorneys representing pensioners ruined by Enron?s demise. In addition to $7.2 billion wrung out of banks like JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup in securities fraud litigation, employees are still waiting...
...bridge. Rumor even has it that the reason the railing was reduced from 5 1/2 ft., on the bridge's original plans, to 4 ft., was to give its diminutive chief engineer, Joseph Strauss, a better vantage point. Past designs were derided as being reminiscent of barbed wire surrounding a prison, but proponents of a barrier point to Toronto's Prince Edward Viaduct, where some 500 people had jumped to their death and a new barrier, known as the "Luminous Veil" and completed in 2001, won Canada's Architectural Award of Excellence in 1999. Besides, argues survivor Hines, "what...