Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usual, we were led by the women's weight people," Harvard's Leslie Carson said. The Crimson dominated the throwing events as Co-Captain Cathy Griffin led the way, winning the hammer throw and the discus, while coming in second in the shotput. Nicole Carkeek led the Crimson sweep of the shotput, while Stacey Caldwell's win in the javelin set the tone for another 1-2-3 Harvard finish...
...Philmont trek provides a deceptively casual scenario for such transition. Changing history is evident in the area's visitors. Spanish conquistadores and American pioneers passed through. Trekkers carrying side arms have included Kit Carson and, more recently, eagle scout and FBI Director William Sessions, who brought along pistol-packing bodyguards. In recent years women have become active in the formerly all-male backcountry. Two of 501's adult leaders are female, as are 20 of Philmont's 185 rangers who hike for two days with each group to help launch the trip successfully. Environmental pressures are being felt as well...
Once in the mountains, Troop 501 discovers that trekking has changed radically since Carson's day. "Low-impact camping" rules mean skipping the traditional campfire unless the fire pit is cleaned and the ashes buried. Opened food must be consumed on the spot. An informal "30-second rule" applies to spilled food: eat it fast. "Smellables" such as soap, toothpaste and tomorrow's rations, all of which can attract bears, are loaded into a burlap bag after dinner and strung over a 20-ft.-high cable. Nighttime hygiene is discouraged; a freshened-up camper in a sleeping...
...borrowings occurred from 1948 to '55, when the civil rights leader was an unknown student at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., and a doctoral candidate at Boston University. According to Carson, King's writings regularly cribbed exact words or concepts from other people's work without proper attribution, although King usually cited the original source at least once. The prime example: King's doctoral dissertation in theology, which drew material from a dissertation written three years earlier by another student. By a "strict definition," in Carson's cautious phrase, this was plagiarism...
...King do it? Carson points out that King wrote his dissertation while he was a busy pastor at a large church in Montgomery. Thus he may have been rushed in his citations. David Garrow, author of the King biography Bearing the Cross, speculates that King may have been "profoundly insecure" at the time. Garrow also observes that preachers learn their craft by echoing one another, so perhaps King carried that practice into the classroom. Even so, "you can't excuse this," says Garrow...