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Everywhere else in his stories, Voinovich judiciously stirs a bit of pathos in with the farce. "What I Might Have Been" is both the earliest and the best in this collection. A construction foreman tells why he resisted his superiors' demand that he declare a block of apartments finished before it's ready. The narrator is no warrior of dissent; his only reason for stepping out of line is that he "doesn't like sloppy work." Voinovich characterizes his hero and the people around him with spare strokes of wry description and an occasional slip of the knife...
Harvard's freshman speed demon, Darlene Beckford, and Johanna Foreman, a junior who spent much of last season sidelined by a foot injury, tied for first place with a time of 17:53, 27 seconds ahead of their closest opponent...
...said that the first wave of runners, Newnham, Beckford and Foreman, can race with anyone in the country, so the gap between them and the second level is naturally big. He added that the second wave has improved greatly and is closing...
...pretty geared up for the upcoming race," Foreman said...
...Beckford (H) 17:42; 2. P. Newnham (H) 17:47; 3. J. McCrone (UMass) 17:50; 4. J. Foreman (H) 18:09; 5. K. Petrick (Umass) 18:30; 6. A. Diaz (H) 18:39; 7. K. Linsley...