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...with 500 meters remaining, time was rapidly disappearing. The Bulldogs had begun to fade, slowly dropping back into a three-boat chase pack with Columbia and Harvard, but Princeton would relinquish no more of its advantage...
Just like in the marathon, there are always fast starters that look sensational at the beginning only to fade into Bolivian (thank you, Mike Tyson). Last April, Kenny Lofton appeared to have regained his 1993 form. A fledgling baseball fan may have thought that Lofton was back—that he had found the fountain of youth and would finally get back to stealing 70 bases a year while hitting over...
...Fade back into consciousness and feel around my Yaffa block bedside table for my stained Harvard coffee mug. It’s about to be filled with straight black coffee. Now I can get out of bed and stumble to the shower with at least half-open eyes...
Most college freshmen must go through a significant adjustment period in the first few weeks of school. Home is often thousands of miles away, family members are no longer around the corner and high school friends and teachers fade into memories...
...collecting dust. This whole situation reminds me of the scene in Reality Bites when the disillusioned Troy quips, “I ride my own melt.” Whatever that means, I think it sums up where I am. The days are numbered, optimism is waning, the daydreams fade. Strength and honor, I tell myself, but to be honest, I don’t think that there’s much hope for this thing riding out as expected, no coup de grace. And that’s OK: I’ll take out one of my best...