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After playing in Hamilton, the Crimson skaters will board a bus for the 80-mile ride to Ithaca for a challenge against fellow Ivy rival Cornell...
...imaginations have had to turn sinister in hopes of anticipating the enemy's next move. We have braced ourselves for the reports of burned children in Afghan hospitals, dead civilians on a Kandahar bus; we know more personally now about the horror of innocent casualties of war. We understand what the Defense Department video doesn't show us--that when soldiers go in on the ground, the caskets begin to come home. This is not the cold war, in which bluffing worked; it is not a land war over borders and ports, which ends with a newly drawn...
...Seven Gate Cave we stop to rest. From here it's an hour to Baidicheng village, which has easy bus connections to the ancient city of Fengjie at the start of the Gorges. I find myself thinking about the climax of Hersey's novel, in which a tracker falls to his death in Windbox Gorge. A few weeks ago a Chinese journalist died after plunging from a similar trail in another gorge. The path was good, but it was raining and he slipped. Nevertheless, Chen assures me that in the old days skilled trackers rarely got hurt. And he cautions...
...Holding on to a ceiling strap, Vieux tilts forward as the airport bus careens across the tarmac...
What most of my peers are missing out on: chicken fights and games of Red Rover on Saturday mornings, obscenities chanted in unison, trips on the raunch bus, drag parties, toga parties, no pants time (think about it...), stays at the Harvard Club of New York City (okay, on the floor), random trips to Florida and Minnesota, parades where kids dress up as ducks, great seats at official University events, alcohol, the love of the athletic department, the respect of the administration and the appreciation of my fellow undergraduates for all that we do to cheer on other Harvard students...