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...faithful reconstruction of a pre-Revolutionary crane, this Rube Goldberg device consists of an upright 30-ft. ash sapling, a block and tackle suspended from a fork at its apex, yards of thick manila rope woven through an assortment of pulleys and a stout ashwood capstan. Today it will raise the final gable, a 20-ft.-long triangle of beams on which roof boards will later rest. Babcock casually knots the free end of the rope around the beams, then signals his crew of four. Under their weight, the groaning capstan turns. The rope creaks. The beams refuse to budge...
Even if yesterday’s vote represented the apex of the two-month conflict between Summers and the Faculty, University leaders are still left without the collective momentum necessary to move forward on a number of top FAS priorities...
...experts at flooring the accelerator," says Matt Mullins, one of the instructors, "but how many of you are used to flooring the brake pedal?" No hands go up, and Mullins proceeds to illustrate how to recover from a spinout, slide through a curve, aim for the apex in a corner and accelerate out. Geared up with helmets, we head out to the skid pad, then move on to a lesson in heel-toe technique: gunning the throttle while braking and downshifting (don't try this at home). After lunch, it's on to a slalom course, racing around cones placed...
...regaled his classmates with stories of his rise from humble origins—his family did not own a telephone until he was in high school—to the apex of Ivy League academia...
...latter is a truer exercise in pathetic bitterness than anything Rob might summon, as it insults new-guy Kevin’s job, threatens him, questions his ex’s mother’s opinion of him but still confesses at the song’s apex: “I just can’t bear to imagine you sharing a bed with him!” Their lyrics, more so than those of the Smiths, told more than a song’s title and frequently outlined rather complicated situations. Take the example...