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...climbers on the face of El Cap, and each one is dragging up a considerable amount of equipment, trash and human waste. "On big walls, people get very intense after a few days up there--they feel more at risk, and ethics tend to go out the window," says Lincoln Else, Yosemite's sole climbing ranger. He regularly finds gear and trash left behind on the top or cast down to the base area below...
...matched against some of Europe's glamour teams, including Glasgow Celtic from Scotland (a 4-0 win), and Juventus from Italy (4-1). According to promoters, it took only one hour for Man U to sell out its Aug. 3 game against Barcelona at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field. Likewise for its Giants Stadium appearance against Juventus. All this without the flamboyantly blond David Beckham, auctioned off to Real Madrid earlier this summer for $40 million. How to explain this phenomenon in a country where the resident pro league often struggles for attention? "Man U has a huge draw from...
...hours I’ve spent working at the offices of Harvard Magazine (on top of an endless production night preparing The Crimson for its morning publication). Arrive in the city in time to catch a show, dinner or (if I’m lucky) swing-dancing at Lincoln Center. After a weekend of friends, family and fun, hop on another bus on Sunday afternoon.And for less than the cost of a long cab ride, I’m back in Cambridge just in time to do some laundry and collapse in bed before getting to work the next morning...
CIVIL WAR Bashing the President Several enlisted men were prosecuted for lambasting President Lincoln's handling of the war. One soldier had written his family that if Lincoln won re-election, "the country is lost...
...Beijing of "genocide" against their fellow members. As a whole, the rally gave off a confusion of messages. Some placards condemned the National Security Bill that Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa was forced to modify, and then shelve temporarily, after the huge protest the week before. Others quoted Abraham Lincoln?"Government of the people" and so on?to demand major democratic reforms for Hong Kong. A popular T shirt had a more pointed, but still polite, directive...