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Beyond such arithmetics, the nature of the sport makes the daily fray somewhat irrelevant as a contest. Stefan Kanfer has noted that baseball records are the most durable of all sports records and thus render the early days of the sport as significant statistically as the last decade. Other major sports are either too young or too modified to have left recognized landmarks in the 1880s...
...decided to visit my old haunts. Now I sit eagerly with 300 other students and eagerly pen down the gilded words of Professor W****** J***** B**** as he expounds on Samuel Johnson. I am no longer an aspiring Norman Mailer, drifting through classrooms in search of a good fray. Now I'm more like a Philip Roth character, working out my intellectual frustrations alone in my room, the same way Alexander Portnoy allayed his sexual troubles. Harvard encourages intellectual masturbation...
...hope that the rift between it and him can somehow be healed. Such a hope stems not from mere pity, but from self-recognition. Each of us is to a degree lost, tied to the rest of humanity?and to God?by fragile strands of grace, strands that fray and break. Pardon is a favor that we may sometimes be in a position to grant, but more important, it is one that we will always need. � Maya Mahs
...whether he likes it or not, the DuBois Institute continues to be a political football, and Leonard, as the administration's spokesman on the matter, is right in the middle of the fray. The Leonard committee's report on the Institute, submitted to Bok last December and made public during the spring, drew intense criticism from a student-faculty coalition and no resolution to the debate is yet in sight...
...asbestos factories. The combined effects of day-to-day wear and tear on asbestos-containing products, as well as a certain degree of industrial planned obsolescence, insure that varying amounts of the fiber will be continuously liberated into the consumer's air. Floor tiles scuff, ironing boards rip and fray, clutch and brake linings are slowly ground down, asbestos cement dust is kicked into the air when buildings are destroyed by demolition companies. Up to a microgram of asbestos is now found in singlevial doses of injectable drugs. This feeds directly into the bloodstream, the equivalent of a week...