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These reasons are clearly not convincing. This tradition-bound, proud New England institution should join its state and celebrate Patriot's Day, letting students watch their peers in the incredible feat of running a marathon or enjoy spring in Boston if only by sleeping...
...Harvard does win, it will be one of just seven teams to accomplish that feat. None of UMass' eight losses have been to ranked teams, but its recent success--it has won seven straight--has been good enough to earn it No. 30 ranking in the Collegiate Baseball poll...
Making the feat all the more impressive, Gonzalez had to battle less than ideal weather conditions on both days, particularly on Friday when winds and rain swept over the course, to capture the title...
Climbing Mount Everest is no mean feat. Climbing Mount Everest with only one foot borders on lunacy. TOM WHITTAKER, a mountaineer who lost a kneecap and a foot in a car accident in 1979, is in the Himalayas right now on his way to the top. No, he's not hopping or being dragged up, although he is being carried financially by a vitamin company. He has a prosthesis, which has its advantages (no chance of frostbite) but takes 30% more energy to walk with. This is Whittaker's third assay on Everest. He was turned back once...
...seemed to have ambition of its own, sometimes overreaching her personal understanding or goals. I remember clearly driving by her house in Nashville and staring at the wrought-iron gates with FIRST LADY ACRES scrolled across the top. I think of her--proud but not egotistical (a feat in itself), delicate and strong--and how the world will never be innocent enough again to produce a Tammy Wynette...