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When the Crimson boards a chartered bus to begin the 10-hour journey to Penn State tomorrow, the series of successes that brought the first-ever Ivy League championship to the Harvard women will be nothing but distant memories...
Harvard had been in the driver's seat, but it let the Ivy crown slip away--at least for one night. The team would have to be content with second place, sitting a single but distant game behind the Big Green with just two league contests remaining...
Some of the faces seemed out of a distant past. William Rogers, the New York City lawyer and former Secretary of State who had lost Washington turf battles to Henry Kissinger in the Nixon Administration. Neil Armstrong, who had taken "one giant leap for mankind" on the moon in 1969. Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist who won his Nobel Prize 20 years ago. Others were fresher, including Astronaut Sally Ride, who in 1983 became the first American woman in space. They and nine other experts were appointed last week to a presidential commission charged with finding out why the space...
...Xinjiang found themselves sitting down to dinner when it was officially 10 p.m., though the sun had not set. The Muslim majority in the province, however, has been agitating for more autonomy, and the time change is seen as a minor concession to their demands. As for other distant reaches of China, well, they must continue to ignore the celestial evidence and abide by Peking's version of the time...
...answer is non-answers," was one comment leveled at Fox. "A typical Harvard bureaucrat;" "he hides behind other student-faculty groups and other deans;" "seen as very distant," were other student voices heard when Fox stepped down...