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...CHESTNUT HILL--After trading wins for the first four games of the match, the Harvard women's volleyball team finally defeated the Boston College Eagles 3-2 last night...
...Lieberman is a good guy. How many times have you heard that this week? Even George Bush said so, adding that it made Lieberman just like him! Lieberman dispatched that one with the old chestnut about thinking the veterinarian and the taxidermist are alike since both give you back your dog. How like a good guy to tell such a lame joke with such obvious delight. Rubber-faced, slow-talking, yet irrepressibly exuberant, Lieberman at his introduction in Nashville, Tenn., was already rubbing off on the usually constrained Gore, who nearly scampered about the stage retrieving a camera left there...
...simply because she loves him, and not, as she herself is quick to point out, because she's interested in the spotlight. Bush himself loves to remind voters of his wife's appealing reticence. The story of his proposal, and Laura's response, has already become a stump speech chestnut: "I asked her to marry me," he'll tell a cheering crowd, "and she said, 'Yes. But only if you promise me that I'll never have to make a campaign speech...
...rain their narrow tires were especially vulnerable to punctures. Cyclists on workhorse mountain bikes had to pump the hardest. Most of our pedaling was on the broad asphalt shoulder of Montauk Highway, which parallels the coast as it runs through resort towns and lavish residential areas. Forsythia, lilac, horse chestnut, wisteria and dogwood splashed bright colors against the rain-wrung greenery, and sometimes the fragrance of roses and the briny freshness of beach air eclipsed the exhaust from passing cars. We caught glimpses of cormorants, egrets, red-winged blackbirds and gulls...
...time, I bracketed Walsh's enthusiasm, writing it off as another in the litany of stock responses that reporters get by the dozen: "We played our game today," "We were able to execute," "We had a lot of positive team energy," or the chestnut so moldy it was banned from the Crimson sports page--"It was a real hard-fought win." As Red Sox manager Jimy Williams is fond of saying about his favorites, "Trot Nixon, he's a real baseball player." And so on ad nauseam...