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...Bodyboarding. You can catch a wave and ride it to the shore without knowing how to surf...
Even if students were lucky enough to catch the shuttle, numerous campus events were canceled. The Association of Black Harvard Women’s affirmative action debate between the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club; “Harvard in Allston: Raising Voices for Sustainability, Students, and the Community,” hosted by an Environmental Action Committee subgroup; and a talk with newly tenured government professor Steven R. Levitsky, were postponed...
...burlesque of the psychological depth that has characterized her writing. Of the protagonist, one “Frederick Morris,” we learn from the narrator in a parenthetical aside, “of course that’s not his name, you’ll soon catch on I’m writing about myself, a man with the same initials.” Yet for self-reflection, the narrator’s description of his life’s events is notably disjointed. “Morris” hears a radio presenter pronounce the non-sequitur...
...PLAYING CATCH-UP Orbiting 200 miles above Earth at 17,500 m.p.h., the space station passes over Cape Canaveral, Fla., for just 5 min. each day. For the shuttle to catch up without wasting too much fuel, the timing has to be dead-on. STAYING IN LANE It takes 2 days to intercept the station. The shuttle is launched into a slightly lowerorbit. Like a runner on an inside track, it catches up to the station, fires its thrusters and edges up to the station's orbit for docking...
...wayside in 2006. John McCain - too much of a maverick to ever be a G.O.P. favorite, and yet a year ago the presumptive front-runner - crash-landed his campaign this summer and is only now showing signs of an unlikely resurrection. His friend Fred Thompson materialized in midsummer to catch McCain's crown, but he fizzled fast. Romney became the party's default darling, spending his way to the top of several polls. But now he too has taken hits for being slippery, and what counts as momentum has passed to Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher from, of all places...