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...crucible in which we're forced to confront the radically foreign-even alien-realities of death, technology, urban life and each other. Whitman could embrace those realities-this is the guy who wrote, "I am large, I contain multitudes." The rest of us can only hope to eke out an uneasy daily truce with them...
...take care not to overstate the case. Many people in Vietnam are crushingly poor and work long days on the street or in the fields to eke out a sparse living. They do not dine in the new quaint restaurants that now grace Saigon. When we traveled to the far north of Vietnam, near the border with China, the houses in the countryside reminded me of those I had seen in my travels in Ethiopia. My wife's aunt, a professor of social work in Saigon, reminds us that Vietnam is only beginning to cope with serious social problems like...
...final frame, the Crimson was able to eke out a 16-14 victory and complete its come-from-behind defeat of the Violets...
Harvard managed to eke out an emotional 3-2 (26-30, 30-25, 32-34, 30-21, 20-18) victory, winning in the closely contested fifth game of its Saturday afternoon match against division rival Vassar...
This time around, the Crimson took advantage of three five-game victories to eke...