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...join NATO or acted in otherwise uppity ways. But Putin's imperial ambitions have recently added an element of classic 19th century-style territorial expansion: Late last month, Moscow signaled its intentions to annex the entire North Pole, an area twice the size of France with Belgium and Switzerland thrown in - except all of it under water...
Alegría was thrown from the car upon impact and fell under the tires, a spokesman for Police Headquarters in Puerto Rico told El Nuevo...
Around 1990, a black law professor at Harvard was falsely accused of shoplifting and thrown up against a counter at Bloomingdale’s. Bloomingdale’s paid him $5,000 in apology. In 1998, an incoming House “master” dismissed a tenured black faculty member whom he had never met from the House Senior Common Room, based upon insinuations of untidiness and petty theft made by a secretary who had behaved similarly toward three generations of black tutors in that House. The secretary and the new House “master?...
...With our team, we had very few upperclassmen, so they were forced into the limelight right away, starting games and playing 90 minutes,” Odorczyk said. “It wasn’t ideal, because they couldn’t learn before they were thrown into the game, [but] they really stepped up to the challenge and that will be so crucial in the future,” she added. What did not hurt the team made it stronger. The freshman core is looking to do big things, and it is not discouraged by 13 losses. Rather...
Despite this fearsome history, Everest is big business these days. Tibet and China, recognizing a moneymaking natural resource when they see one, have thrown the peak open to tourism. Expeditions charge climbers, often unskilled, up to $65,000 to be walked to the top. In the spring of 1996, 14 groups from 11 countries swarmed Everest's lower campsite, digging in 17,600 ft. above sea level in preparation for an attempt on the summit. Among the expeditions was a 26-member New Zealand team, headed by Hall, that included Krakauer, Dallas pathologist Beck Weathers and Doug Hansen...