Word: ely
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...none of this could help me visualize PJ. I decided to cold e-mail them, without going through the captain or coach first. Geoff had told me their civilian names: Alex A. Parkinson ’11 and Eli J. Jacobs ’11. They e-mailed back quickly, but they were too busy to meet with me (schoolwork and prepping for tournaments). I could imagine them sitting at vast, thickly papered desks, sifting through files, and passing folders back and forth...
...when, despite all that, everyone is up at 7 a.m. and the whole team is there for two people, getting them food, highlighting, making sure they have water, everything they need. So when the whole team is cooperating . . . it really feels like a team. Even not being Alex or Eli it’s great, everyone loves that...
Football is one of those sports where talent often runs in the family. Archie, Peyton, and Eli Manning, Howie and Chris Long, Kellen and Kellen Winslow—the list of NFL families is lengthy...
Unlike Cambridge, which elects representatives to its nine City Council seats by citywide vote, New Haven votes for its thirty aldermen by district. As a result, Yale, which occupies a large portion of the city’s first ward, has historically been successful in putting an Eli on the board...
Rosalba Piña, a Chicago attorney who co-hosts a local radio program on immigration law, agrees. She likens Mississippi officials to those who fought to keep 6-year-old Elián Gonzalez in the U.S. nine years ago because they argued his life would be better here than in impoverished Cuba with his father. "They're ignoring basic U.S. and international law," says Piña. "Unless there's some real threat to the child's life back in the home country, most judges know it's in the child's best interest to be with...