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...Rubens and Lawrence attended the Olympics as a developmental opportunity but more was expected of Brydon and VanderBeek. Brydon, who grew up in Fernie, B.C., keyed her season on the Olympic downhill because the course suited her ability to glide on the flats. But she started poorly on the roller-coaster style of terrain and could not recover. ?I didn?t perform to my ability or expectation,? said Brydon, 25. ?I went in 100% prepared, physically. Everything I needed was in front...
...lost by less than 13 at any point in that span. Considering that two of the Dartmouth teams included in that streak went 10-4 in league play, there’s no reason to believe that the run won’t be pushed to ten.The Quakers glide past the Big Green by 18.COLUMBIA AT YALEThe Lions started this season 5-0. Since then, they’ve gone 3-11.Columbia’s seven Division I wins this season have come against teams with an average RPI of 251 and a high of 227. The Lions have four...
...meets Mr. Sakamoto, himself researching the life of Alexander Graham Bell. Over glasses of red wine, and later by e-mail, they toast their love of modernity. "The telephone is our rapturous disembodiment," a typical paean begins. "We breathe our selves, like lovers, into its tiny receptacle, and glide out the other end, mere voice, mere function. Wires, currents, satellites, electrical systems: these are the hardware we extend ourselves into, spaced out, underground, alive in the trembling skeins that arch across nations...
...Depression. The Murrays built a successful franchise of teaching studios and later brought ballroom to the masses through television, erasing the class signifiers that had accompanied certain dance steps. At the beginning of their program, immediately following a live advertisement for Newports, Alkaseltzer, or the like, my grandmother would glide onto the stage—SNL style—perform a short monologue and encourage her audience: “Add a little fun in your life: try dancing.” I have a sneaking suspicion she wouldn’t approve of her descendents giving up the classics...
...piece of bookmaking. The fable-like story is a prickly dialogue between a duck and an owl, who, although they see virtues in each other, can't quite become friends because each fails to understand why the other does things in such an odd way. The duck likes to glide back and forth in the water; the owl prefers sitting high up in a birch tree. The duck eats weeds from the bottom of the pond; the owl hunts small animals in the woods. The duck sleeps at night, the owl during the day. Eventually both realize...