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...good confidence builder after two losses on the road,” said Harvard Coach John Kerr...
...bright side, the Crimson players did not return to Cambridge with their heads down. Harvard’s win against San Diego was a huge confidence builder and a monumental win for the Harvard men’s soccer program...
...tube in his nose. He is not in good shape: incurable pulmonary fibrosis has left him only 40% use of his lungs, and his doctors told him a year ago that he had just months to live. But with the inexorable will that has made him an empire builder, he pumps his latest project, a swashbuckling novel featuring a miracle-working naif who brings God's word from Ethiopia to California. Bill Bright is a late convert into the exploding field of religious potboilers, but an enthusiastic one. "I've written many books about the Holy Spirit," he says cheerfully...
...eight, his parents divorced. After he nearly failed the fifth grade, his mother moved swiftly to intervene. She sharply restricted television viewing time for him and his older brother Curtis and required them to submit weekly reports on books they had read (Carson's first: Chip the Dam Builder). It wasn't until years later that the brothers learned that their mother, who left school after third grade, could barely read what they wrote...
...people in Italy want to make a lot of money and don't want to get their hands dirty," Price says. "But you don't make a lot of money" making gondolas. High labor costs and as many as 10 years of training also make it uneconomical for a builder to take on an apprentice unless he already knows something about boat building...