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Either the Crimson sat on the ball like a mother hen on her nest, or it was shooting at the crease like they were in an old-western gunfight. Harvard's leading scorer, co-captain Mike Eckert, had Virginia's best man on him and did not get very many opportunities...
...remember taking calculated study breaks every 15 minutes or so last spring to get the latest Tigers' score, get the 5-0 on the latest Toledo Mud Hen to be called up to the major league club and read about Michigan's new-and-improved more-fabulous freshman class...
...looks back to November 1992, two years before the Republican victory--when Clinton ended 12 years of Republican presidential rule, winning back large areas of the South and the precious "Reagan Democrats." Or one could go back another 2 years, to the aftermath of the Gulf War, when hen-President George Bush had approval ratings in the 90 percent range, and not a single prominent Democrat would run against...
...Philadelphia. Henri's original family name was Cozad--he was a very distant relation of Mary Cassatt--but his father, a riverboat gambler and property shark, had shot a man in Nebraska and had moved East and changed his name to escape the judge and jury. Young Henri (pronounced Hen-rye) became an artist through study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, which in the 1880s was still what its chief teacher, the great realist Thomas Eakins, had made it: the best place in America to learn direct, factual realist painting, based on incessant drawing...
...some people call it a disease." He hunts about 25 mornings a year during the birds' spring mating season, getting up at 3 a.m., driving an hour and a half, then lying in the brush of north Georgia in a green-and-tan camouflage suit, making improper suggestions in hen-turkey language to persuade sex-crazed gobblers to strut into shotgun range, tail feathers spread, beard wiggling, wings spread and lowered. Generally, Tull says, he drives back to work happy but turkeyless. The range of a turkey flock is small, he explains, and the birds, which are quite intelligent...