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...routine trip to the supermarket becomes a Homeric journey. And choosing a course can resemble a Herculean feat...
...times, he got caught up in the drama of leading Harvard's student body, Hanselman was also one of the most competent council presidents in recent memory. Not only did he lead the organization through a scandal-free semester (no small feat, in light of the corruption that plagued the last two administrations), but he succeeded in pushing the council to take stands on issues of importance to students: whether the College adopts a one-dean or two-dean administrative structure, for example, and how the University should handle its ties to ROTC...
...Sophomore cross-country runner Ian Carswell achieved a great feat with his swift feet. Carswell placed first in District 1 in the ICAA Championships, earning him a spot in the NCAA Championships in November. Carswell finished 35th out of 185 runners, a mighty fine accomplishment...
...there was one small problem: the school had no women's hockey team. Instead of throwing her hockey dreams away, however, Villiote tried out for and made the boys' varsity team, the first girl to achieve such a feat in school history...
...hours during which a new network is presenting an extravagant premiere broadcast featuring all its stars and programs. The movie wants to show us the frenzy of such an enterprise, bring everyone involved as close as possible to panic but not in itself succumb to breakdown. This is a feat that has always interested George Lucas, who wrote the original story and is the executive producer. As we know from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, he loves multilevel, multicharacter, broadly played popular fiction edited at a pace that flirts with incomprehensibility yet rigorously maintains narrative logic. Radioland, scripted...