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...lacrosse, the rivalry between the two academic bastions is a new one. In the distant past, when neither school was a national powerhouse, the game never had the aura of its counterpart in football or other sports...
...always somebody who couldn't be ignored," says Phil Shinnick, a school chum and currently a research scientist in Brooklyn. "She was queen of the prom and a street fighter. She had an aura about her. She was physically well endowed and always got the best guy." Her beau in those days was Tom Shine, now a Spokane architect. The romance did not last. "We came from different backgrounds," Shine recalled last week. "I knew she wanted to leave Spokane and do other things...
...idea has a rhetorical "drowning in the blood of the oppressed" aura about it that some might find appealing. As for me, though, I prefer to believe that the government is making a symbolic gesture to the American people--trying to show that it really does care about the quality of our lives despite all evidence to the contrary...
...those who stand to profit. Start-up firms charge $50 to $90 per jump and expect to attract as many as 100 jumpers per week. "The best mountain climbers anywhere live here," says Doug Hase, 23, president of Adrenaline Adventures. "Bungee jumping just fits in with the Colorado aura." One-fifth of his jumpers come back for more. Says Hase: "It's a huge sense of accomplishment after completing a jump...
...sometimes hard to match Vukonich the player to Vukonich the person. Vuke retains his Midwestern aura of naivete and simplicity, despite four years in big-time college hockey...