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...thesis about Byron. I have also, in that time, slept a lot, returned 43 books to Widener, washed my clothes, and knit half a scarf—all in the hopes of eradicating the Christmas-afternoon feeling that has been haunting me since 5 o’clock Tuesday. It hasn’t worked. I can still feel Byron, poor man, unhouseled and perching on my bookshelf. And so I try to exorcise him with anecdotes...
...track. The skid pad here is a half-mile oval surrounded by wide swaths of muddy grass. Spin out, and you wind up in the weeds, which is where I find myself a couple of times. For the course's finale, we split into teams and, racing against the clock, tear through a slalom. When my turn arrives, my adrenaline is pumping so hard that I put the car in reverse (a common mistake, I'm assured). Suffice it to say, my team loses...
...international donor community should be thinking round-the-clock of one question: How can the Big Five interventions be done on a larger scale in rural areas similar to Sauri? With a population of some 33 million people, of whom two-thirds are in rural areas, Kenya would need annual investments on the order of $1.5 billion for its Sauris, with donors filling most of that financing gap, since the national government is already stretched beyond its means. Instead, donor support for investment in rural Kenya is perhaps $100 million, or a mere one-fifteenth of what is needed...
...That’s what we’re trying to do. When you score goals at the end of periods, it means you’re not sitting there waiting for the clock to run out, you’re going after...
...another end-of-period strike in the second to put the game out of reach. Holbrook picked out Crum amid a crowd in front of the crease and she potted her second goal of the year to bring the score to 5-1 with only 12 seconds on the clock...