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...time, the new "Boston Game" became quite the Cambridge rage. Although the rules had changed little since the era of "Bloody Monday," the action was somehow less brutal. The players organized the Harvard University Football Club in December 1872, electing officers and codifying the traditional rules. Shortly afterward, Harvard declined Yale's desperate invitation to the Intercollegiate Association...
Only 1:30 into the second period, Yale's Terry DeMeza scored on a pass from Brian Bird. Then Cole, the Yale goalie, held up the game for about ten minutes while officials examined his injured knee. He re-entered the game immediately afterward...
...Stalin had never had much use for his sensitive and with drawn son. He hounded and beat the boy so unmercifully that in the Kremlin one night in the late 1920s, Yakov tried to shoot himself. He only managed to inflict a serious head wound, and Stalin afterward taunted him that he was incapable even of killing himself. It might have impressed the old man to know that his son finally mustered the courage to do the job, even with German help...
...guard." One chilling passage portrays Eichmann himself, standing over a killing pit near Minsk and watching a pleading Jewish mother hold up her baby just before the bullets strike. "I was so close that later I found bits of brains splattered on my long leather coat," Eichmann said afterward. "My driver helped me remove them. Then we returned to Berlin...
...time he pushed off, the run was rutted and choppy; the leader was his own teammate, Guy Périllat, who had started first and zipped down the 1.8-mile course in 1 min. 59.93 sec. "I knew Périllat's time," Jean-Claude said afterward. "I figured I had the race in hand." He did. His body tucked low to cut down wind resistance, he was a blur in blue as he slashed through the turns and flashed down the long schuss at something like 70 m.p.h. Crossing the finish line, he slammed to a stop...