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...crew’s opening heat in Greece, the eight set the world record for their event, covering the two kilometers in 5.56.55. But Romania edged out the Americans in the final by half a length, and Davies has returned to Cambridge, silver medal in tow, to complete her senior year...
...attitude. I assumed when I got to Europe that—with a passing knowledge of French and a good deal of cultural sensitivity—I could fast-forward through the homesickness and adjustment anxiety which the Office of International Programs and my French program had described at length. I was wrong...
...Crimson marched the length of the field, the end result was never in doubt. Dawson would score. It was only a question of how long the Leopards would be able to hold...
With so much on the line, Bush started prepping this summer and has had occasional full-length dress rehearsals, but the pace picked up last weekend at his Crawford, Texas, ranch. New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, who played Al Gore in the 2000 drill, stood in for Kerry, and admaker Mark McKinnon assumed the role of the first debate moderator. It all took place in a one-story building known as the Conference Center, where Bush practiced behind a lectern and aides flashed cue cards that told him how much time he had left, just as officials will...
...book succeeds because, unlike in real life, Jacobs (an Esquire editor and NPR contributor) confines his written observations on Encyclopaedia Britannica articles to jottings the length of entries in Schott's Original Miscellany. (Among the facts he highlights: the Bayer company invented heroin; toward the end of his life, Nathaniel Hawthorne constantly scribbled "64" on scraps of paper; René Descartes liked cross-eyed chicks.) Instead, he uses his book, which is organized by Encyclopaedia Britannica entries, to do what he has done best as a magazine writer: stunt journalism. The entry on "Vital Fluid" leads to a story about getting...