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...Minnesota anymore. Travel writer W. Hodding Carter and 11 other hardy souls set off today on a 1,900 mile trip to retrace the voyage of Viking explorer Leif Ericsson from Greenland to present-day Newfoundland. Squeezed into a 54-foot wooden boat (called a "knarr"), expedition members will chart their course by the stars and sun and dine on the succulent Viking staples of freshly caught fish and moss and lichens to be gathered at beaches along the way. In true Viking style, crew members will rely on just six oars and a square canvas sail to make their...
Fitful irritation and gossip, gusting to contempt; jealousy, plotting and backbiting, holding steady at obsessional hatred and spasms of baroque fury, with likelihood of budget cuts: this is the wind chart, as any veteran of the higher-ed dodge can attest, of collegial relations in a well-ordered university English department. Or so say the profs who write about such matters in satirical novels, most of them set on campuses not readily distinguishable from their...
...Revolution, challenges listeners to strive for success. Says Wu-Tang member RZA: "The way we looked at it is, we came from hell, and we're on the way to heaven--and you're hearing that transformation." Also, gangsta attitude isn't the only thing that sells: the recent chart success of such Christian acts as God's Property and Bob Carlisle demonstrates that religiously oriented inspirational pop has a market...
With that, Baffert wiped at his watery eyes and blew his nose. Sentimental? No, actually he's allergic to hay and horses; always has been. That's just one of the anomalies on Baffert's past-performance chart. He grew up on the family ranch in Nogales, Ariz., rode quarter horses without much success, became something of a party animal while majoring in animal science at the University of Arizona, tried substitute teaching for a while, worked in a Tucson feed store for another while, then gravitated back to quarter horses as a trainer. He found his calling...
Grancio scored a career-high 26 points in that game and Snowden recorded a double-double with 19 points and 16 rebounds. Hill tallied four assists in that game, moving him into fifth place on the all-time Harvard assist chart...