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Brown was solid, but Harvard was spectacular,looking more like an NCAA Final Four contingentthan any other time this season. Play revolvedaround the Crimson's run-and-gun style, with theBruins forced to adapt to Harvard's tendency toplay lots of balls into...
...many Americans who felt their life's work and life's savings threatened last week. Since August, the plunging stock market has erased nearly $1 trillion of wealth that people had been counting on to buy new homes, pay tuition or secure retirement. For investors who had scored spectacular gains, on paper at least, the loss was calculated in the thousands, even millions, of dollars that vanished in a few hours...
Then trading began in New York, and the unimaginable happened: a collapse on a scale never seen before -- no, not even in 1929. Prices went down, down, down, swiftly wiping out an entire year's spectacular gains. "I just can't believe that this is happening," moaned one trader, as he took nonstop sell orders at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. At lunchtime, brokers across the U.S. went hungry or ate sandwiches at their desks while trying to keep phone receivers pressed to both ears. "This is going to make '29 look like a kiddie party," shouted a trader...
Burger, a freshman, made a spectacular save, chasing down a live ball that had rebounded off Schossberger. The play fired up the spikers, as Tapson and Cassell recorded consecutive smashes to give Harvard...
That same year, she returned to the public stage as Washington's emissary to Italy, the first American woman to be named ambassador to a major power. As usual, Luce made a spectacular entrance and exit: in her first major speech, just a couple of weeks before the Italian general election, she broke nearly every unwritten rule by eschewing diplomatic platitudes in favor of a pointed warning about the "grave consequences" for voters if they became "unhappy victims of totalitarianism of the right or of the left." Four years later, she resigned for reasons of health: dust laced with lead...