Word: hexes
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...marks of my adolescence remain--hand-made calendars marked off in Latin, New Yorker covers I pinned up during my pretentious sophomore year of high school, a hex circle bought on an eighth-grade trip to Amish Country. The smells are the same, somehow--deodorant I used senior year, the wet leaves on the trees by the skylight, the old books I had collected since seventh grade...
...this season, since most of the contestants are running backward. In the American League's Eastern Division, the Toronto Blue Jays struggle to realize their vaunted potential and atone for a notorious swoon three years ago, when they lost a 3 1/2-game lead in the final week. Such a hex would be no burden to Toronto's rivals, the Boston Red Sox, who groan under a curse of mythological heft. The Sox, as their minions are ever mindful, have gone 72 years without winning a World Series. At Fenway Park, a fan holds up a sign with nothing...
Hoping to make sure that Harvard didn't embarrass Northeastern twice in less than one week, the Huskies football players turned out en masse last night in Boston to hex the Crimson...
...giving himself sole authority over who is allowed inside. When he returned home, he ousted Zulema, who then made a melodramatic scene in front of TV cameras. But these troubles pale before a new problem confronting Menem. Legions of superstitious Argentines have become convinced he is cursed with a hex. The alleged evidence: several of his Cabinet ministers have died in office, and after Menem shook the hand of a driver before a powerboat race, the driver crashed and lost an arm. The clincher came when Menem showed up on the field with the Argentine soccer team the day before...
Regrets over the Brown game are nothing new for the star-crossed Crimson. The Bruins' hex over the Crimson has endured since Harvard's 1981 title season...