Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Campus life centered around a few staples: the football game, the prom, fraternities. New Haven was not then dangerous, just boring...
...spent nights with friends in Davenport, his residential college, perfecting a game he invented called "squash hockey." Using fireplace grates as goals, Bush and his friends would play hockey in Davenport's downstairs squash courts, "whacking" a tennis ball around the courts in the hours after midnight...
...tried to make it Texas Tech Raiders versus the Yale Bulldogs," says Hance, who is now one of Bush's biggest supporters. "He was well-educated and we used that against him; a lot of people around here feel that a lot of the problems around here in the last 100 years have been created by Ivy Leaguers...
...Around the House, Gore didn't make a splash. Had he not known Gore's background, Rosenblatt would never have guessed that Gore was the son of a famous senator...
Stargazers are celebrating and satellites are battening the hatches as the earth makes its annual passage Wednesday and Thursday through the trail of the Tempel-Tuttle comet. Each year on or around November 18, different parts of the world are treated to the Leonids - a show of "shooting stars" (actually meteoroids from the comet's tail). Normally 10 to 20 light up the night sky each hour, but this year the show should be considerably better. Astronomical records dating to the beginning of the millennium show that every 33 years or so the Leonids spike a little as the comet...