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...time the expedition reached what appeared to be an impassable set of rapids--a series of six waterfalls, the last of which was more than 30 ft. high--Roosevelt was gravely ill, and his men were beaten down by exhaustion, hunger and fear. The only man among them who believed that they could get their dugouts through the rapids was Kermit. Having spent much of the past year building bridges, he was extremely skilled with ropes, a talent that had already saved the expedition countless times as it encountered series after series of rapids...
Back at our desks come Tuesday, sunburned and a bit disoriented, we flash a cunning grin when a co-worker asks, "How was your weekend?" We feel as if we've beaten the system. Isn't that what we're really after? > Watch for Po Bronson's frequent columns on time.com
...mother, and I love her, and this is the most important thing, and I understand her history. I understand that she is doing to me what was done to her. A lot of these abusive mothers were abused. I believe that if this woman who was beaten with a whip could work it out, most women could unless your mother took a bullet and killed someone you loved...
...problem [was] that we were fixing too much on Princeton...we see them a lot and we tend to fixate on them a little bit,” junior Rachel Orler said. “IRAs was kind of a shocker for us because we’d always beaten Georgetown in the past.” “It was disappointing to have a third-place finish to cap it off, but there were definitely some high points to the season,” senior Sarah Bates added. Despite being unable to capture gold in the season finale...
...they also won Harvard’s first Ivy League titles—the first ever for the women, the first for the men since 1977—as juniors in 2005. Not until 2002, when Jakus and Rose were freshmen, had the Harvard men even beaten Columbia since 1978.“That was a walkover,” says Kolombatovich of the Lions’ success in the once one-sided rivalry. “It wasn’t even a contest. [Brand] has taken that program and turned it around 180 degrees...