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...which more or less coincided with the end of Detroit's glory days as a city and an industry, you have to look hard to find songs by Michigan musicians about driving. Instead, Bob Seger--Michigan's Springsteen, who gave Chevrolet its "Like a Rock" slogan--reminisced about the backseat of his '60 Chevy in "Night Moves" and sang "Makin' Thunderbirds" about workers building Ford muscle cars in 1955: "They were long and low and sleek and fast/ They were classic in a word...
Late in my travels, I was on a rural highway on the way to Santa Clara, crammed in the backseat with Oscar, his wife Yusimi and their radiant daughter Zenia, 5. We'd been out late dancing a few nights earlier, and Yusimi was giving me a postmortem on my performance. (Her bemused verdict: "You have Caribbean feet, but I have no idea what your butt is doing.") Just then, "La Jinetera" by the staunchly anti-Castro Miami singer Willy Chirino came through the speakers. It must have been the driver's CD--the song would never have been allowed...
...result, the passing game took a backseat, as senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti completed 12-of-18 passes for only 98 yards and one touchdown. Similarly, production for junior wide receiver Matt Luft decreased, as he caught only two passes for 27 yards...
...will succeed. But he gets too lost in the woods and the “maybes” of Galicia to remember the objectives of his quest: “Over the course of a year, the challenge of eating every bit of the pig seemed to take a backseat to the sheer pleasure of seeing so much of Galicia...Only now can I reflect on just how much has been eaten. Everything but the squeal? Perhaps not.” Even more of an affront to the reader, it seems that Barlow never intended on finishing his plate...
...men’s fencing team added. This would make fencing seem like the ideal Harvard sport. Weakness in athleticism can be atoned for with a brilliant strategy, a sort of physical chess. But, out of the 41 Division I sports that Harvard offers, fencing seems to take a backseat. Yet, it is one of the best teamS on Harvard’s campus. The team is consistently a national contender. “If you want to see a sport at the highest level, fencing is certainly one of those sports that can offer you a situation where...