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...begged them to try and find some localentrepreneurs that wanted to be in Cambridge. We'dhoped for small tenants, but [the bank] wants abig anchor and [Abercrombie and Fitch] can pay bigbucks," said G. Pebble Gifford, president of theHarvard Square Defense Fund...
...meter freestyle relay. For the first three legs the crowd held its breath as swimmers from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton matched one another stroke for stroke. But any hopes Yale or Princeton had of squeaking out a victory were dashed by senior Alex Kurmakov, who powered out an incredible anchor leg to win by three-tenths of a second...
...brilliantly patterned minutiae of daily life, the rewards of Nattel's research, that anchor the novel's loftier meanings. At muddy street level, Blaszka is stuck in poverty and provincial darkness. Typhus, cholera and rampaging Cossacks periodically cut down the defenseless population. Czarist laws keep Blaszka's youth from a modern formal education. But so do Orthodox parents who pray that their sons will devote themselves to Talmudic study and their daughters will aim no higher than the kitchen stove and the marriage...
Keith Olbermann is an anchor at Fox Sports News...
Asano helped anchor the Crimson defense in the Dec. 6 meeting--the day she turned 22--until she fell victim to the highly physical nature of the contest when a Wildcat player sent her sprawling into the boards, which resulted in a sprained ankle. But her teammates gave her the birthday present she wanted by overcoming a 2-1 deficit with less than seven minutes left in regulation to hand UNH its only ECAC loss of the season...