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When the last limping Bruin crossed the line at Franklin Field, the Crimson had racked up a near perfect 15-48 rout by capturing all of the top ten places except for sixth. The harriers accomplished the feat without the services of captain Adam Dixon, who was out with tendonitis, or Andy Gerken, sidelined with a hip injury...
...Helms' memory, any trauma is lost in the harmonious glow of oldtime, small-town pleasures. The only local recollection of something like misbehavior was a climb he made up the courthouse clock tower, which sits on George and Tillman Helms' original farmstead. But it was not a very hazardous feat. "We all did that back then," says Hinson. "There was a stepladder...
...first time, units of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front captured a small Salvadoran National Guard garrison, that of the isolated northeastern town of Perquin (pop. 3,700). The guerrillas held the town for seven days; all the while their clandestine radio station, Radio Venceremos, spread news of the feat across the country. The insurgents finally retreated after the Salvadoran army moved reinforcements into the area and bombed the town. According to guerrilla accounts, their casualties were light-only one killed-while the armed forces, which did not reveal their true losses, sent 23 wounded to local hospitals. Over...
...just this aromatic blending of Victorian and modern sensibilities that made reading the novel such an exhilarating experience. The reader became a dolphin, swimming through the period story, then leaping up for 20th century air. In fiction, the narrator can achieve this feat simply by changing tenses: "They did this. I say that." But film lives in the eternal present; everything that happens happens right now. To be faithful to the structure of The French Lieutenant's Woman would run the risk of dislocating the moviegoer-right out of the theater...
...metric near equivalent, the 1,500-meter run, was on the Koblenz menu-but meet organizers quickly obliged Ovett's request and lengthened the finish line by the required 120 yds. As good as his word, Ovett flashed across the tape in 3 min. 48.40 sec. His feat set another record: shortest time needed to break a new mile record...