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Enter Susan McDonald. The 38-year-old, who moved to Franklin Reserve three years ago, was walking with her kids along one of the development's new foot trails and saw gang graffiti on a fence. "I thought to myself, This is it--I am done," says McDonald. She voiced her concerns on the town website. "I got 85 responses to do something," she says. She helped found the Franklin Reserve Neighborhood Association (FRNA), which today has 405 members. FRNA created a "good neighbor" letter to let absentee landlords know when their renters were causing problems, and organized a Sunday...
...across some rough seas.”Watching Mailer read her pieces was “very erotic and stimulating,” for his entire body would move in a rhythm that reminded her of a giant sewing machine, she said.“He taps his foot, saliva comes out of his mouth, and his body moves to and fro,” Mallory said.After a writing lesson, the pair would make love and then go to lunch to discuss writing, gossip, and her next reading list.The spoken word was a pivotal part of making love with Mailer...
While junior Becky Christensen was busy last week getting old injuries examined, the Penn Relays were the farthest thing from her mind. But when doctors said her foot was cleared for jumping, she decided at the last minute to head off to Pennsylvania to compete with some of the best high jumpers in the country. It was a decision which ultimately reaped great rewards. Christensen, an All-American, became just the third Harvard female to win at the Penn Relays. She brought home the high jumping gold, clearing a height of 179 cm, by out-jumping athletes who had podium...
...year for outstanding work behind the scenes in the arts. If he had to pick a defining moment in his tech career though, Jewett would point to a particularly challenging piece of woodwork from a play he did freshman year. “We had to move these 14-foot-by-six-foot wagons that were suspended so that they didn’t touch the ground across the stage in only a few seconds. That was kind of tough.” Jewett is an Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator who grew up sailing and particularly likes the fact...
...march into a tropical dungeon. When the Americans' bloody foot sores made it impossible to walk, says John Pinchao, a Colombian police officer who had been held with them until he escaped last spring, their captors gave them boots so small it made their steps only more agonizing. (The rebels finally hacked off the toes of the boots with machetes to lessen the pain.) Pinchao says the men trekked for days until they reached a FARC camp in the Sierra de la Macarena, where they were initially penned together in a slung cage whose low, barbed-wire ceiling prevented them...