Word: marathoner
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...many professors, analysts, and campaign staffers back up the governor's claim to the dogged virtues of the marathon runner he once was. They argue that he learned at least as much from private reflection as he did from the sages of JFK Street...
...article published February 22, The Crimson incorrectly quoted Kenneth A. Gerber '89 as saying that most of the proceeds from the Dance Marathon would go to the Currier House-affiliated Jefferson Park project. The proceeds were split evenly among five student public service organizations, including the Jefferson Park program...
...Dukakis and Gephardt dueled for the mantle of Democratic frontrunner, the Massachusetts governor had a prophecy for the still-muddled race: "This is a marathon. It's going to be a long...
...passions long delayed. There is Hulda Crooks, 91, who has climbed 97 mountains since she turned 65, most recently Mount Fuji in Japan. And Dentist James Jay, 74, who finished, along with 51 other septuagenarians and four octogenarians, that 26-mile ribbon of pain, the New York City Marathon. And Virginia Peckham, 69, known on San Clemente beach as "That Crazy Old Lady," riding an orange-and-white boogie board and shouting surfing mantras. And Etta Kallman, 77, writing knowingly about "The Metabolism of the Dinosaur" and winning awards for academic excellence from New York University. And Jane Stovall...
...Americans pick a new President on Nov. 8 they will have invested nearly half a billion dollars in a random and chaotic process. They will have absorbed encyclopedic detail on such pop issues as the "wimp factor," and probably given more of the public's airwaves to this political marathon than to any other story of our age. Then a lot of them will lose interest until the Inauguration...