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...That is why I wrote this Endpaper, which is either the final step in shedding my childhood reticence, or the first part of my transition to that blowhard you meet at bus stops that won’t shut...
...murders in the poorer parts of Detroit. Andrew Anthos, 72, was badly beaten on Feb. 13 while he was trying to help a wheelchair-bound neighbor stuck in the slush outside his Detroit home. The attacker, according to witnesses, had harassed Anthos as he rode home on the city bus. Before he died on Feb. 23, Anthos, who was gay, told police his killer had called him a faggot and later followed him off the bus. "We believe this was a hate crime," says Melissa Pope of the Triangle Foundation's Detroit office. Anthos' assailant still hasn't been caught...
...makes a few thousand rupees a month, the equivalent of about $100. He says the drivers can't go on strike or their children will go hungry. In any case, says Kumar, it's only a small minority of rickshaw drivers, especially ones who service the train and bus stations, "who give us a bad image. They just grab people and force them into their auto. There is no please or thank you with them...
...Manhattan College bus may have broken down two weekends ago, but the Harvard men’s tennis team was firing on all cylinders last night, as it swept the Jaspers 7-0 at the Murr Tennis Center in a match that had been rescheduled from Feb. 11. With the win, the Crimson’s first of the spring season, Harvard proved decisively that it had shed its early-season rust...
...shiny track pants, she is far more identifiable as Harvard’s top ranked singles and double tennis player than as a homeschooler. But Ko, like Jentoft, arrived at Harvard from her own tiny universe. The last four years of her life had been a whirlwind of bus rides, plane trips, losses, and victories as she traveled around the world playing competitive tennis. After graduating from the Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Florida, where she trained with tennis superstars like Andy Roddick, she found herself with a dilemma: play on the Junior International Tennis Federation tour or attend...