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Onstage, Derwin Brown crooned his best Barry White into the microphone. He didn't want the night to end. He had come here to celebrate his wife's 46th birthday--and he had stayed on even after she left for home feeling tired. There was much more to celebrate: in three days, he would be sworn in as the new sheriff of DeKalb County, in suburban Atlanta. The night was as much in his honor as hers; relatives and close campaign supporters had feted him in the lounge's VIP room earlier. Soon he hoped to make good...
...became a student of Jackson, especially of his oratorical style, his cadences. I heard him speak in every setting from ghetto high schools in Washington and New York ("My mind is a pearl/ I can do anything/ In the worl'.") to sleek 46th-floor dining rooms of the TIME-LIFE Building, where he met with editors and writers preparing cover stories about him. Jackson has many speaking voices - from hard street (almost incomprehensible to the white ear) to a high, southern-preacherly eloquence (school of Martin Luther King Jr.) to the most sophisticated corporate mellowspeak, as smooth and fancy...
...next weekend at Williams, Myers again led the Crimson Alpine skiers in the slalom with a 45th-place finish, and skied to 46th place in the giant slalom, also a Harvard best. At the Eastern Championships held at Middlebury in late February, Myers' 59th-place finish in the giant slalom put him at the top of Harvard's finishers list for the third straight week...
Myers was the top Crimson finisher this weekend on both the Alpine and Nordic teams, the two components of Harvard Skiing. He placed 46th in the men's giant slalom on Friday with a time of 1:56.38 and 45th in the slalom the next day in a time...
Brown drew first blood in the 46th minute. Brown senior midfielder Anders Kelto, gaining control of a center sent by sophomore teammate Adam Buchanan, chipped the loose ball into the bottom right corner of the goal, untouched despite the traffic in front of the net. The ball skidded just past the extended fingers of Crimson junior goalkeeper Dan Mejias, who took over for sophomore keeper Mike Meagher after the first half...