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...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder For the fitness-minded resident or traveler, Berlin's Tiergarten park offers one of the great runs in Europe. The park - 3 km long from the Brandenburg Gate to the Charlottenburg Gate and 1 km wide - was opened to the public by Frederick the Great in the 18th century. A leafy refuge, it's hard to imagine that by the winter of 1945, Allied bombing and Berliners foraging for firewood had thinned out the park's 200,000 trees...
According to Walsh and UMass coach Mike Stone, the driving factors appear to be financial. The draw of the local teams and the tradition of the Beanpot seemed to be insufficient to offset the cost of the security and gate personnel required to staff the ballpark...
...Crimson jumped out of the gate with five first quarter goals and never looked back. Along with its strong offensive performance in the first half came a stifling defensive effort, as Harvard held the Saints to just one goal before the intermission...
...young men from Missouri, standing at the Gate between the old Yard and Memorial Hall, ask one: “Where is the pretty part of campus?” Astonished and offended, one tries to argue that our surroundings are hardly displeasing. But these friends wish for ivy-covered walls and grasses of perfect British green. They are not content with anything one has to offer. One leaves feeling disconcerted, but the visitors from the Show-Me state are just the first to cast one in the role one was to fill ever after, each time one crossed...
...this country’s foremost tourist attractions, one still doesn’t think that anyone expects these hallowed halls to be churning out the answer to the secret of life. Until that happens, one’s understanding of the phrase inscribed on Dexter Gate (“Enter to grow in wisdom/Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind”) is pretty straightforward: Enter to expand your knowledge of useless trivia. Depart to better promote the wonders of this University to the world. Seriously, this place owes one a stipend as a tour guide...