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...first time a Harvard Shuttle has given out on me. I pulled the bus over to the shoulder. After deboarding, a junior counselor and I were looking at the bus. We thought it might have overheated; little wisps of what looked like steam were coming out of the hood. However, we didn't stand around to see what might happen, because we noticed something leaking from the bottom of the bus (we thought it was water). Returning to the rest of our group, who were several hundred yards down the highway behind the bus, we watched, as over the course...
...robberies, Jose Luis Razo told reporters that no one at Harvard understood him. Razo's attorney plans to defend his client by arguing that the sophomore football player robbed from the rich to prove that he was still "a homeboy." The media loves the story: a latter day Robin Hood psychologically torn between attending the bastion of northeastern elitism, Harvard, and proving to his friends that he was true to his Hispanic roots...
...birding included the observation by Paul Sykes that "the bird can also leave just before you get there." As all birders come to know, there is a corollary to this that says, "After sighting a particular species you have chased for years, three of them will perch on the hood of your car as you start for home...
...your place. They will walk 50 miles through Arizona deserts to replace you, too. They will climb into hollowed-out gas tanks with no ventilation and try to ride across the border in 110 degree heat. They will remove the radiators from their cars and place friends in the hood as they try to drive through customs...
FORTUNATELY FOR the trivially illiterate, the movie offers plenty to chew on by itself. Nicolas Gage, a fine young actor who is making a career out of playing louts, here is H.I. McDonough. H.I. is a small-time hood and big-time loser who falls in love with the officer who takes his mug-shots, the stern but delicate Edwina (Holly Hunter). He and Ed are happy in their trailer park until they discover that Ed is barren. As H.I's extensive prison record prevents them from adopting, they have only one option: stealing one of the new Arizona Quints...