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...parents' passing and learn how little we know about the journey's end. Death will never be pretty--its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting. And yet while sorrow is certain, fear is not. "She had a very good death," a friend says of her mother, and I have an idea of what she means and don't hear it as a shrug of denial or contradiction...
...department chair, who requested anonymity to preserve relationships with the administration, said that the chairs themselves often have to take the heat for failed searches, meaning that the slowdown could be detrimental to intradepartmental relations...
...questions focused heavily on gaffes and gotcha politics. In a commercial aired last weekend, over images of Pearl Harbor, the Cold War, the 1929 stock market crash, the Cuban Missile crisis and Osama bin Laden, Clinton reprised Harry Truman's famous line, "If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen." In response, Obama was as forceful as he has ever been in the campaign, but some observers wonder if his show of toughness came too late. Even though 66% of voters thought Clinton had attacked unfairly, late-deciding voters broke 59% for her, according to exit...
...meters of the race, the Big Green brought its stroke rating up to 40—as compared to Harvard’s steady 36—and began pushing and moving back up on the Crimson. The two boats came across the line in a virtual dead heat, requiring a photo finish to decide the race’s outcome and to declare Dartmouth as the race’s victors with a time of 5:51.8 to Harvard’s 5:51.85. MIT finished in third place with a time...
...dead heat all the way to the stables. They finished together...