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Doherty's versatility has long been his trademark. Captain of the football, baseball and basketball teams at Monsignor Coyle High School in Taunton, Mass., Chris at first attracted a flock of recruiters with his defensive prowess. But then he learned some offense during a post-graduate year at Andover, and has not played a minute of defense during his Harvard career...
...characters suggest a more traditional era. Brother Jero is the rough equivalent of an American storefront preacher, a "beachfront divine." His world is one of tongue-in-cheek contrasts, for like all slightly bogus religious leaders, he sees through the pretensions of his livelihood and of his enraptured flock...
Every fall on the third Sunday in October, they flock to Cambridge, oar in hand, awaiting their turn upon the Charles. Then early on that Sunday morning thousands will line the river banks to watch crew's most majestic autumn Regatta...
...Airbus Industrie, a French-German-Spanish company that is now struggling to keep production lines open and sell enough planes to break even. No European-made passenger jets have been bought by U.S. carriers since the 1960s, when American Airlines and several other carriers took delivery of a flock of British BAC One-Elevens, and United purchased 20 French Caravelles. To win the key Eastern sale, Airbus Industrie offered the airline an in expensive lease deal to try out the planes...
...long wait occurred because I had to be on that first London-bound Skytrain, and it attracted the kind of people who flock to never-to-be-repeated phenomena. Laker held firmly to the first-come, first-served rule: in London, awaiting the first flight to New York City, Freddie had to sign on as a "crew" member to avoid queuing up. I was 13th in line in New York. First was Nick Ratner, 18, who had hitchhiked and bused from California...