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...next day, four competitors cleared the 1.90-meter bar on their first try, while Aldrich struggled again, missing twice. But she once again converted her third try under extreme pressure. Aldrich then moved into second-place by clearing a height of 1.93 meters...
When President James B. Conant '14 sought to appoint a curator for the new college poetry room in 1932, he personally offered the post to Robert Frost, then at the height of his fame. Frost, who had won the Pulitzer prize the year before for his new Selected Poems, wished the room well but politely said that he preferred to remain at his home in Amherst, Mass...
...club requires that men be six-foot-two and women be five-foot-ten. It provides social outlets, moral support for tall people--who sometimes feel the sting of verbal jabs about height--and a venue where they can trade secrets on clothing stores, airlines and hotels that accomodate tall people...
...basketball stars, no matter how great their height or extravagant their talent, need teammates to step up if they want to become champions. Every NBA championship squad in recent memory has featured at least two superstars; no player can do it alone. Every Jordan needs a Pippen. Every Olajuwon needs a Drexler. Every Shaq needs a Kobe. The star adapts his talent for the good of the team; the other players learn from his example. He needs them--the fellow star, the role player, the Steve Kerr taking a pass from Jordan and knocking down the shot, the Brian Shaw...
...taciturn warriors, one who killed from a great height, the other a blood-caked corpsman who routinely risked his life to treat the wounded and comfort the dying, are remembered in two remarkable books. They are remarkable not only for their scorching accounts of war but also because they were written by sons desperate to know fathers who never talked about the most intense experiences of their lives...