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Amidst a sea of shiny silver space blankets, runners of all ages gulped water and gnoshed on fruit and energy bars as they recuperated from their 26.2 mile trek from Hopkinton, Mass. to the heart of downtown Boston for yesterday’s 107th running of the Boston Marathon...
Power’s book was born midway through a marathon training run in Boston. While jogging past the Holocaust memorial near Faneuil Hall, she was struck by the inscription “never again...
This Monday, April 21, Massachusetts commemorates the “shot heard ‘round the world” and the battles of Lexington and Concord which began the Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775. While most Bostonians spend the holiday by watching the Boston Marathon or picnicking on the Common, Harvard students will be required to attend their regularly scheduled classes...
...than it is a recognition of my tendency to procrastinate—the promise of hours of television seemed especially precious, like quinine in a malarial climate. Clutching handfuls of tissues, I dragged myself to the couch, turned on The Today Show, and settled in for a therapeutic television marathon that, I calculated, would culminate with The Price Is Right. I planned not to move until Bob Barker had reminded us all of the importance of spaying and neutering our pets...
When I finished the marathon, Hitler waved to me, and I thumbed my nose at him. That's my claim to fame. But Jesse told me, "Kelley, Hitler waved to me, and I waved back." That's actually what happened. When he won his fourth medal that day, after setting three world records, Jesse was the hero of the whole Games. To everyone. Except for Hitler. The dictator looked almost unbeatable at the time, but Jesse's victories upset his theory about an Aryan master race. Jesse Owens was the greatest track athlete we have ever...