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...Yale's final offensive play of The Game, with the Bulldogs needing a touchdown to put themselves within a field goal in the final minute, Yale quarterback Joe Walland called Compas' number. Walland threw a 16-yard floater, leading sophomore James Borden to the corner of the end zone...
Cornell completed its opening-minutes trifecta with 20 minutes gone in the game. Midfielder Josh Warmund lofted a floater into the Harvard penalty box area. Kusseluk managed to evade the Harvard defense and was alone in the center of the box. He gently tapped the ball off his head, and the ball just floated over the outstretched fingertips of Albers...
There is, however, a way to avoid all the potential unpleasantness associated with blocking groups. Don't block, just float. It is a simple solution, but it requires a solid constitution on the part of the floater. Very few of us have the courage to assert our independence in that way, to put our faith and our future happiness in the hands of fate. Or is it chance...
...ANYONE CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT it is like to work at TIME, Calvin Trillin's 1980 novel, Floater, is required reading. The story of a hapless writer at a national weekly newsmagazine suspiciously like this one, it skewers some of TIME's most revered traditions, including this very page. Though Trillin now tries to pretend that Floater is "made up," he in fact gathered inside information during nearly three years on TIME's staff. In 1960, after graduating from Yale and serving in the Army, he joined the Atlanta bureau, reporting on the civil rights movement. He then moved...
...Currier House administration has stakedout an untenable position by forcing us to choosebetween spending our senior year in a smoke-freetower with a floater or taking the onlythree-person suite in the house, which happens tohave been included in the smoking area,"Schumacher said. "For us this was the only logicaloption. We hope it won't be a problem...