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...that good this year, they have always been a problem, so we always look out for them.”Yale is the best free throw shooting team in the Ivy League, posting 72.7 percent from the charity stripe. The Bulldogs have also built a wall around three point land, holding its opponents to 28 percent from beyond the arch. In its last meeting with Yale, the Crimson didn’t score a single three pointer. The game should break down as a typical offense vs. defense matchup, as Harvard possesses the best perimeter shooting in the Ivy League...
That lackluster turnout failed to dissuade Page and venerable musher Joe Redington Sr., who mortgaged his home and sold a piece of land to help finance the event's start-up costs. Their efforts helped persuade officials to stage the first full-length Iditarod in March, 1973, in which Dick Wilmarth and his lead dog, Hotfoot, triumphed by covering the inhospitable terrain in 20 days. Since 1983, the Iditarod - the word is said to mean "distant place" in indigenous Alaskan dialects - has steadily grown in popularity, becoming both the most popular sporting event in the state and an international touchstone...
...posed to the race come from other directions. A heavy snow recently blanketed parts of the Alaska, burying the trail in deep drifts and forcing mushers to break out their snowshoes. And just as it has in the Lower 48 states, the economy has cast a pall over the Land of the Midnight Sun. Due to higher operating costs, entrance fees have spiked 33% to $4,000 despite a shrinking prize pool; between food, supplies and preparation, the cost of running the race can reach $30,000. Meanwhile, mushers have griped about the salaries doled out to event executives, which...
...University has denied repeated requests by local residents and city officials to place a moratorium on future land purchases, saying that certain parcels contiguous to current holdings may still be considered for acquisition...
...towards intentional self-parody, with lines like “I need a cookie and a hug.” The lyrics work best when they undermine, rather than reinforce, the fuzzy cuteness of, well, everything else about the band.It is easy enough to create a wistful childhood fantasy land, but it is more interesting to examine its borders, where the defense mechanism of regression into childhood breaks down either from its own deliberate obliviousness or from an encounter with the so-called real world. “I Box Up All The Butterflies” shows this fairy tale...