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...handicapped-parking zones on Mount Everest. Weihenmayer became the first sightless person to reach the 29,035-ft. (8,850-m) summit. A good athlete, he turned to climbing after losing his sight as a young teenager. The trek required him, with the help of his team, to negotiate ladder bridges over bottomless crevices and ascend a peak that kills even the most able mountaineers...
Even more motivation for the Crimson is the ladder-shuffling that has occurred already this season. With the coaches moving players into different spots between the Brown and Cornell matches, teammates have been jockeying for position among themselves...
...inward-looking and self evaluative. B.J. Greenleaf, in yesterday’s column, “Network Aversion,” identified the Harvard approach to social connections as Rolodex building. It’s much more difficult to see someone as a rung on the ladder to greatness after you’ve taken out thirty bags of garbage together...
Channing’s Styron has spent her entire life subduing her femininity in order to climb the corporate ladder, sacrificing a marriage and the chance for a family to a hectic work schedule and briefcase full of Valium and Zoloft. Stiles’ Murphy, in contrast, exploits being female, teasing men in elevators, coming on to Styron and punishing men. The dynamic and growing relationship between the two causes Styron to question her life choices, but also causes Murphy to escalate her exploitations. The characters serve the story nicely, but Murphy is too extreme; audience members might find themselves...
...return to student rank. In each class, large and small, the professor should list the students in order, from the brightest to the dullest. Only then should the professor begin assigning grades, awarding the top students with glowing A’s, and slowly working down the ladder to the dismal depths...