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Canseco, 6-ft. 3-in., built himself up to a solid 210 pounds last winter with a weight-lifting program and began making an impression in spring training. His batting practice show brought fans out early around the league, and the homers continued most of the season, except for one long, frustrating slump...
...stranded in Cambridge over the holidays, you're not alone. Although all College dining halls except Adams House are closed on Thanksgiving Day, Food Services has planned a special holiday dinner--including turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie and mashed potatoes--for the 325 undergraduates expected to feast on Harvard's roast beast...
...Freshman Union and North House are the only dining halls open on Friday, but all dining halls except Currier, Cabot and Dudley will reopen on Saturday. Cabot and Currier will reopen for Sunday brunch...
What the Handlins' approach lacks is a look at the material basis of the "actualities" of colonial experience. There is little sense of social structure or social relations except as conveyed by ocassional anecdotes. If we learn about family, church and enterprise in the book, we learn about them in a haphazard way, in sharp contrast to the way, for example, Mary Ryan illuminates social and ideological change in her book Cradle of the Middle Class. The social structure was the framework in which the colonists developed their new society, and without fully reveling in it, the Handlins miss...
...shape of a football is unique. Have you ever seen anything except a football that is shaped exactly like a football...