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...second 45 minutes, the Booters again looked comfortable and in control. Mike Mogollen and Alberto Zillar played superbly on the wings, opening up the Harvard offense. When Zillar was injured in front of the Harvard bench, Ford substituted Joaquo Correia, who played up to Zillar's high standard and more...
...adjusted well to the Reagan Administration--to Nancy's conspicuous consumption and the President's Wednesday afternoon horseback-riding, to the Stockman safety net and the Weinberger window of vulnerability. On the cover of his latest book, Laid Back in Washington, Buchwald relaxes on a Lafayette Park bench, the White House in the distance, a Smith-Corona portable in front of him. the clothes have changed temporarily to Reaganesque cowboy duds, but it's the same old Art, grinning slyly from somewhere within the folds of his paunchy face...
Beside her, on legs that were just learning their business, was a spotted fawn, as small and perfect as a trinket seen through a reducing glass. They stood there, mother and child, under a gray bench whose trunk was engraved with dozens of hearts and initials. Stretched on the ground was another fawn, and I realized that the doe had just finished twinning. The second fawn was still wet, still unrisen. Here was a scene of rare sylvan splendor, in one of my five favorite boroughs, and I couldn't have asked for more...
Cheng used her time on the bench to analyze Harvard's play. "It's easier to pick out mistakes when you're a spectator," she said. "We weren't as charged as we were in the match against...
...scenario of the highly motivated athlete who has most probably experienced not just athletic, but academic success in high school. Once here that student is thrown into a melting pot of similar success stories and--probably for the first time in his life--finds himself sitting on the bench. It's hard to take, and often quitting is easier than admitting one's own limitations...