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...volunteers his time providing security and a reassuring presence at the school. Earl, a former Golden Gloves boxing champion, is rough-edged and straight talking. A father of six, he can also be a gentle man, and is often seen crossing the playground or walking the halls, a knot of adoring children at his side...
...long arms grab quesadillas and chunks of blue-dyed chicken off of platters that seem to float above the crowd, held high by waiters who bustle unseen through the surrounding crush of people. It would be impossible, at this point, to fall, much less move anyplace, because a dense knot of bodies presses in from every direction. More TV camera lights flare up--Entertainment Tonight and CBS--and the room becomes one crowded, sweaty, hyperthermic, and increasingly drunk exercise in swirling claustrophobia...
...coach leaned back in his chair, clasped his wiry, veiny hands together in a knot-lock and looked down at a few sheets of white paper. Then, as he looked up across the table, the first words out of the coach's mouth were, "Yale...
...route to Albuquerque, New Mexico: Clinton again wandered back to chat with a knot of reporters. This time the topic was primarily mango-chutney ice cream, a San Antonio specialty Clinton loves. Somehow this candidate on the cusp of victory conjured up the macabre memory that his first taste of mango-chutney had come the night before he drove former House majority leader Hale Boggs, campaigning in Texas for McGovern, to the airport for what was to be a fatal airline trip to Alaska...
Harvard then watched what may have been its best effort of the season fall short as Friar forward Lynn Campbell sliced the Gordion knot, scoring with 3:44 left in overtime...