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These four families rose fast and fell hard. Meticulous research culled from courthouse records, archives and interviews with descendants of the Big Four make The Big Rich a page-turning tale with well developed characters that seems boxed up and ready for the silver screen. It's impossible to read this book and not think of the 2007 film There Will Be Blood, which put the ruthless business of land rights and oil drilling into sharp focus. Burrough's tome, though, is broader and explores not just the greed, wealth and risk of early twentieth century American oil prospecting...
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...swimmers to the wall before the Tigers’ second finisher, the sheer volume of Princeton wins was too much to overcome.“Anyone who was watching the meet saw…that we were a team,” Morawski said. “Swimming as fast as we did and staying that close to Princeton without getting the wins—that was the group effort.”The Crimson’s distance freestylers exemplified that group effort. Though Tiger Alicia Aemisegger, who earned All-American honors in three events at NCAAs last year...
...Mangan, with a time of 4:35.48. Also representing the Crimson women’s Nordic team were sophomore Alyssa Devlin (4:35.52), senior captain Anna Schultz (4:44.47), freshman Shannon Mulshine (4:46.56) and sophomore Meri Burruss (5:12.42). “We all skied really fast, some of us faster than last year, but the women’s field has gotten a lot faster this year,” Mangan said. Wrapping up this weekend’s carnival was the women’s 10K Free. Devlin finished in the middle of the pack with...
...trauma surgery, and there is transplant surgery; one usually takes a lot longer than the other, and you'd be insane to try to do both together. So I wondered why he seemed to set himself up to fail, insisting that lawmakers do something very big, very hard, very fast, and in a whole...