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...Over Zanzibar on his 22nd orbit, panel lights indicated that one of Cooper's three inverters [which convert battery power to alternating current] had gone dead. He tried to start a second, but could not. Cooper's sole remaining inverter was needed to power cabin-cooling gear on re-entry. Now Cooper would have no automatic aids at all in bringing his capsule down ... It was up to Cooper?with some dramatic help from the calm, crisp voice of [ground liaison] John Glenn ... Cooper and Glenn ran swiftly, surely down a check list of the operations Cooper must perform...
...with sophomore running back Clifton Dawson on the sideline due to a muscle strain in his side that he sustained earlier in the game, senior running back Nick Carrington got the call and couldn’t convert, as his own lineman tripped him up behind the line...
...sucked in. Following Boston sports picked up the slack, and made it so that I could finally fit in, even if I wasn’t a full convert until senior year (I actually rooted for the Raiders in the Snow Bowl against the Pats). It took me a while, but by senior year I had shed what little loyalty I had had to my native city. Until that point, I hadn’t felt a full part of the Brookline or Boston communities. Though I had immersed myself in its athletic teams, student government, local hospitals and other...
Clemens, by contrast, is a recent convert to the conservative cause. “I was uncommitted before college,” the Lowell House resident says from the backseat of Fernandez’s Lumina. “I first started getting active in the Republican Club as a result of Ec 10 with Marty,” Clemens says—using an affectionate nickname for Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61, a former top Reagan adviser. Clemens says that as he progresses farther in the economics concentration, he has become more committed...
...time Foxx won a piano scholarship to United States International University in San Diego, he had figured out how to convert his confidence and pain into fearlessness and ambition. At a Los Angeles comedy club in 1989, his then girlfriend urged him to grab the open mic and perform (though it's hard to imagine he needed much persuading). "I went on as Cosby, Cosby the gangster," Foxx recalls, slipping instantly into long, uncoiled Bill Cosby sentences punctuated with profanity. "I did Tyson. I did Reagan. When I got on that stage I felt like all the elements were finally...