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...such pesky grownup considerations as having a real job or buying real estate. This was still true in 1988, when I followed my new husband to New York and gave up a $600-a-month, shabby but charming three-bedroom Victorian flat in sunny Noe Valley. As the movers drove off with our belongings, I vowed--as I had back in 1967--to come back someday...
...also a clutch offensive power. In an early season double-header at Cornell, Lentz drove in Harvard's only runs in a 2-1 victory. In the second game, he hit a game-winning triple in the ninth inning...
Three months later, I had forgotten the specifics of the bar incident. Watching BC in the tournament, I was stunned when, trailing by three points in the closing seconds of a game against the University of Southern California, guard Kenny Harley drove to the basket instead of shooting a trey. It is clear that an error occurred; BC needed three points to tie and, instead of shooting a trey, Harley went for two. The next day Harley was the goat, criticized for failing to keep track of the score...
...long ago, the name of the company that Tim Koogle stepfathered from infancy to manhood deserved its exclamation point. It was a full-throated barbaric howl, the one profitable rebel yell of the Internet that really drove fear deep into the hearts of the old-media infantry. By last Wednesday, when the Robert E. Lee of this rebel force reached his Appomattox, the yell sounded more like an ironic groan. First-quarter sales set to be 40% off last year's estimate? Ya-hoo. Stock down 92% from its peak, with no end to the freefall in sight? Ya-hooey...
...Arkansas, I stored my 12-gauge shotgun under my bed. I took it out when I went with Dad to shoot clay pigeons. That wasn't back in the 1950s but rather the late '80s; even in that recent decade, I wasn't considered an outcast. Lots of kids drove to school with rifles they had forgotten to take from gun racks over the weekend. A teacher might cluck disapprovingly, but no one called a SWAT team...