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...Times Square is especially tricky - and can blow them off course. In 1928, a giant dog balloon escaped from its handlers, blew against a street sign and deflated. The same thing happened in 1956, when Mighty Mouse failed to save the day and collapsed instead. Heavy rain filled the brim of Donald Duck's hat in 1962, causing the character to tip over and dump 50 gallons of water on unamused onlookers. In 1971, rain fell so heavily that the balloon portion of the parade was cancelled. Sonic the Hedgehog broke an off-duty policeman's shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

Zailskas, with his brim down to his eyes like Jonathan Papelbon, stayed ahead in counts and mixed his fastball and changeup effortlessly. He retired the first eight batters of the game and struck out three in the first three innings. Though SDSU’s Nick Romero took one deep in the fourth, Zailskas recovered quickly. In the sixth, the starter still looked unstoppable as he retired the first two batters of the inning...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zailskas Solves Crimson Woes | 4/1/2008 | See Source »

...night when Lavietes Pavilion was packed to the brim, Harvard rewarded its fan base with a monumental 62-51 upset win over Michigan...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard M. Hoops Slays the Wolverine Beast | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

...Lee’s Sandwich Shop (61 Church Street) This hallway of a sandwich shop is as unpretentious as it gets in the Square, serving up foot-long warm and cold subs for less than $6. The one-size-fits-all soup cups are ladled to the brim with homemade daily specials and, at $2.95, are cheap enough to warm you every rainy Cambridge day of the school year. That’s a lot of soup...

Author: By Courtney M. Petrouski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dining Out: Cheap Eats in the Square | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...There is, of course, little way of answering this, but then the pleasure lies in the asking. Arranged according to their visual rhythm, the images brim with possibility and are a pleasure to browse. Lovers embracing on the grass are juxtaposed with darting splashes of water; a flight of fluttering birds is counterbalanced with the utter stillness of a male figure lying by a tranquil stream, his head and legs artistically out of frame by benevolent mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accidental Art | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

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