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HANOVER, N.H.—Let the countdown begin. The Harvard football team is now three weeks away from perfection...
...favorites, and my Roman summer quickly became devoted to one song that months earlier I would have never thought I could fall for. This song was perpetually at the top of the Roman countdown, and was omnipresent during the high months of summer, blasting into the piazzas in the evening and played gently in the supermarket during the day. The video was heartbreaking, and this song beautiful. Both told a story of betrayal, pain, and closure...
...oldest, and only son, of Don and Lorraine Latham's four children. In one respect, there's no mystery to the man. He's simply the first of the post-baby boom generation to get this close to Australia's top job. He hit his teens as Countdown began defining youth culture, as Gough Whitlam's Labor project was on the skids and as Kerry Packer busted apart the cricket and media establishments. Next came university - a two-hour commute - and, after hours, the throbbing, beery era of Sydney's pub rock: Midnight Oil, INXS, the Angels, the Radiators. Latham...
...sidelines of the volleyball court in Tehran's Olympic training center are littered with the usual detritus of a warm-up game: stray balls, gym bags, sweaty tracksuits?and a jumble of crutches and prosthetic legs. The final countdown to the Paralympics, opening in Athens this week, has begun, and Iran's sitting-volleyball team is readying for what it hopes will be its fifth consecutive gold. Team manager Ali Kashfia, watching from a battered turquoise wheelchair, nods appreciatively as he watches a particularly elegant set-and-spike maneuver, a smile splitting his scarred and twisted face. The 40-year...
...policeman who presided over the simple intersection of a two-lane Mass Ave. with JFK St. (then Boylston St.) has been replaced by an elaborate apparatus of traffic lights and beeping, countdown crosswalk signals...