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...additional 1,010 agents will soon be deployed, bringing the total to more than 5,000. Helicopters, night-vision scopes, ground sensors and computers are being brought in at unprecedented levels. When equipment has not been delivered, because of the glacial government procurement process, Reno has personally borrowed gear from the Pentagon...
Fortified by the "ole, ole-ole-ole!" chants of the crowd and some good midfield work by sophomore Will Kohler, Harvard surged back into high gear late in the game. It was actually against the late run of play that Brown had the best chances to end the game on 90 minutes: using Hughes as a target man, the Bears continued to chip crosses into the Harvard box, but Albers expertly claimed several of them...
After police shot and killed a black man in the course of an arrest in Lexington, Kentucky, an angry crowd of black protesters took to downtown streets to overturn cars and pelt police and passersby with rocks and bottles. A quick show of force by police in riot gear contained the disturbance. Authorities later announced an fbi investigation into the shooting...
...Vogue. Marxism these days has appeal "in an odd sort of retro-manner," says Jedediah S. Purdy '97, an editor of Perspective who has studied Marx. "One might use the fashion metaphor that it is equivalent to showing up at a party in your '71 easy rider biker gear. It's a cachet of anachronism...
...hard time in our first two games," said junior Patty Seo, a Crimson editor. "We just didn't have our buts in gear yet. But we've done pretty well ever since...