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...more than a down-zoning petition is what he calls "the monolithic view Cambridge residents have of Harvard." He illustrated the point with an anecdote about a neighbor he once had when he lived in Cambridge. The neighbor was carrying on about a car parked in front of his driveway. The car had a Harvard sticker, and the neighbor was furious "at Harvard, not the individual," Goyette says, for blocking his driveway entrance. After Goyette told the neighbor to call the police and have the car towed--as he would in any other similar circumstance--the neighbor exclaimed that this...
...admitted to the Air Force Academy in Colorado, only to be expelled six months before graduation for cheating on a history exam (he glanced at a course outline during a break). "You don't know what loneliness is," he says, "until you drive into your driveway at home, in the Deep South, on Christmas Eve, having just had your ass booted out of a military academy." He went on to Georgia State University, where he earned a degree in political science...
...appreciate the obstacles ahead for our new energy boss. The idea of energy conservation for many people is leaving the lights off at home and taking the dinosaur in the driveway out for a 70-m.p.h. spin on the freeway...
...race barreled northward toward Canada, the snow grew deeper and the trail became a successive range of steep moguls. In the drifting snow, the racers bobbed and weaved, plunging from view only to emerge again and fly across a farmer's driveway or a roadside culvert. Occasionally they would tear onto the shoulder of the road, skimming around a car or truck before hurtling back into the ditch. Driving a 450-lb. snowmobile at high speed on rough terrain is like riding a brahma bull-an exercise in keen judgment and balance. As Driver Al Bergquist, an Illinois farmer...
...seemed less awed by the transformation than Carter himself. With Rosalynn and nine-year-old Amy in tow, he strolled like a tourist up the driveway to his new home. "Where do I live?" he asked White House Chief Usher Rex Scouten. Scouten promptly led the family upstairs to the presidential quarters that had only that morning been vacated by the Fords...