Word: legendizing
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Timothy C. Harte ’90, Kirkland House’s senior tutor, is viewed as something of a legend among Harvard marathoners. This is his sixth time running the Boston Marathon, highlighted by his 38th place finish three years...
...Legend has it that Britain will hold Gibraltar as long as its famed colony of Barbary apes survives. The simians are unlikely to die off soon; nor are the humans, who will invariably veto any form of Spanish sovereignty. Britain has known this all along. With Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's continued promises to put this issue to a vote, skeptics wonder whether a settlement, then rejection of a settlement, has been London's short-term plan all along. Even if it falls short of removing a thorn in Anglo-Spanish relations, Britain would fulfill its duties, first to Spain...
...begin, for irony's sake, in January 2001, when thousands of draft notices arrived in the mail at the homes of Israeli army reservists in standard-issue brown envelopes bearing the legend "Chapter 8" - Israel's code for a call-up for war. Those notices were fake, part of a sneaky effort to reduce Sharon's 20-point lead over Ehud Barak two weeks before a crucial election by suggesting that if Sharon were elected, the draft notices would be real. Sharon won, and sure enough, a little over a year later the real draft notices arrived, calling up some...
...early entertainment was a cadre of Oscar-caliber supporting actors. Between sporadic appareances by the new principal owner of the BoSox John Henry (it was either him or an automatronic robot made to look just like him), a photo-op with Channel 4 sports reporter and local legend Bob Lobel, and musical accompaniment by the Hot Tamale Band, we somehow made it to our seats in time for the 1 p.m. start...
...good company aside, the day was really carried by the events on the field. An interesting rendition of “The Star-Spangeled Banner” by local legend Steven Tyler was followed by a fly-over of four F-16 fighter jets and an unfurling of a huge American flag that completely covered Fenway’s infamous Green Monster in left field...