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...country at the tender age of 42 after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. Eight years later, at the time in their lives when most politicians are just beginning to hit their peak, Roosevelt was already a former president and embarking on the most fascinating and tumultuous leg of his colorful career...
...himself nearly became a casualty on the expedition. Four weeks into the journey, he injured his left leg and lapsed into a high-fevered delirium. During his illness, Roosevelt, in a strange choice of literature, kept reciting the opening line of a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree.” When the team returned safely to civilization, they realized that they had discovered a 1,500-kilometer river that was later named “Teodoro...
...yard medley relay on March 24, Cromwell’s opening leg put the Crimson into third place in the consolation final. His 100-yard backstroke time of 0:48.19 was just 0.22 seconds behind leader and perennial title contender Georgia. Eventually, however, Harvard found it difficult to keep up with a field dominated by pure sprinters and fell slightly off the pace...
...Simple is simple, guys who are in the clubs have these beautiful mansions and powerful alumni friends. Girls don’t have that so, of course, men continually have a leg up. I’d say it’s an unfair one, too, because it has nothing to do with merit, just a chromosome...
...Though Pollycarpus, 37, didn't know Munir, he called the activist twice on Sept. 6, the night Munir departed?calls he at first denied making, but which were recorded on Munir's cell phone. Pollycarpus then boarded the flight for its first leg to Singapore, and, say the authorities, swapped his business class seat with Munir's in economy; he took a 6 a.m. plane the next morning back to Jakarta. "Garuda doesn't have any reason to murder Munir," says commission member Rachland Nashidik, an activist and a friend of Munir's. "The question is: who has the power...