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...Bryan had put on his Harvard-preppy look: white button-up, Harvard sweatshirt, tight jeans. An earring glinted in each ear. He was ready. The football teams would compete in the stadium, this time for the 124th year, but Barnhill had his own game to play, and he knew the rules...
...hour later he was still circling the room, smiling and chatting. A Sydney businessman, Order of Australia button in his lapel, watched admiringly. "He was the real thing," he said, raising his glass in Howard's direction. "I'll miss him. Australia will miss...
...That was the experience of Rohit Kaliyar, 24, who was at an engineering college in the northern state of Uttaranchal five years ago. Like other freshmen, Kaliyar was told he could not look seniors directly in the eye but had to stare down at the third button on his shirt. Seniors cursed him, slapped him and struck him with a metal ruler. They also entered the hostel around midnight one day and forced his friends to strip and rub Vaseline on each others' bodies, he said. "It was all for their sadistic fun." But freshmen were reluctant to retaliate...
...Connor said. “They had a chance to gain confidence at this tournament, though it was unfortunate that they weren’t able to get more matches and experience. But when they wrestled, they showed how tough they are.” Seniors Matt Button (165 lb.) and Bobby Latessa (157 lb.) went 3-1 but were likewise denied a chance to place after the cancellation of wrestlebacks. Sophomore Frankie Colletta (174 lb.) also finished 3-1. “Everyone wrestled at where we need them to be right now,” head coach...
...will soon have available in Finland cell phones that contain two chips, one for mobile-telephone service and one from Visa that adds a nifty credit-card function to the handset. The Visa chip will allow a customer to hold the phone near a cash register and push a button to pay a bill rather than having a clerk swipe a credit card. The digital mobile phone can replace the customer's signature as well...