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...reasonable person. I can always sweep dirt out of my bedroom, and computer science problem sets are probably more important than my daily fix of e-mail. So I tolerate the little things that annoy...
...first six decades of Willie Gill's life, the winding dirt road next to his house in Chilton County, Alabama, was a nuisance. If trucks weren't churning its surface into clouds of red dust, rains were turning it into a swamp. Gill, who is black, never really expected the all-white county commission to do much about it. "But Mr. Agee, he come and put in a paved road just about last year," Gill reports. "I'm glad to have...
...Provost being a "green" administrator weren't so far off. Green, says our source, was taken over by one of those pesky alien pod-people that seem to proliferate in the Yard this time of year. As we all know, the green gook that Harvard sprays all over the dirt is not, as the administrations claim, Hydraseed, but an anti-pod-person pesticide. But this year, they came a little early, and Provost Green was the first victim. President Rudenstine and staff have been trying to keep anyone from seeing or talking to him. Their ingenious plan is to shunt...
...Moving to first base was not a big adjustment fielding-wise," Hochanaldel said. "I had to worry most about things that shortstops don't do, like my footwark around the bag, making the stretch and getting balls in the dirt...
...final inning. Harvard hit pay dirt, stroking five runs to win the game by four...