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Bowes left-footed it hard and in the air towards the opposite corner, but that goalie--freshman Jennifer Traw--hyperextended her body upwards and snatched it. An inch or two higher, and the ball would have either deflected in or right to fellow Crimsonite Emily Stauffer...
Harvard fosters this kind of paranoia. Since everyone lives on campus, including many teaching fellows, no one ever really goes home. Unlike people who work in New York City and take the train home to Westchester County on weekends, or those who work in Los Angeles and inch longingly toward the suburbs on Friday afternoons, we cannot escape. Those who live in the Quad are slightly luckier, because the Cambridge Common provides a physical break from the academic world, but even they are subject to the ebb tide of Hilles Library and the distant yet powerful influence of the river...
...portray their candidate as a homespun political hedgehog, a man with a simple, overarching view of America, while representing Bill Clinton as a sharp-eyed political fox, a candidate who has, as Bob Dole says, "a million little plans." Dole repeatedly contrasts his "one big plan" with Clinton's "inch-by-inch" approach. The subtext of Dole's message, beginning with his Senate resignation speech, in which he described himself as "just a man," is that he, not Clinton, possesses a singular insight into the American character, an insight that he cannot always put into words. The hedgehog riseth...
...Crimson started the game strong with a solid 2-0 lead after one quarter. A few letdowns, however, let the Tigers inch its way back into the game...
...discovered I had a talent for it--I was good," the 5-foot-2-inch Parker says...