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...After practice, the boys and horses, emitting feathery clouds of steam, are back in the stable. Stale manure is replaced with fresh hay, the horses are denuded. Stinking of the barn’s musk and covered in horsehair, the players are back in Cambridge shortly before midnight...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grabbing the Reins | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

Padraig Harrington's practice range in the backyard of his Dublin home comes equipped with floodlights. When his wife hauls him in after midnight, as she often does, the Irish golfer retires to a specially designed indoor range in his basement. At most tournaments, Harrington is the last golfer to leave the practice ground; at one event this year he hid a stash of balls behind a hospitality tent so he could sneak back out to practice after the staff went home. As is common to addicts, those close to Harrington try to wean him off his habit. His caddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Padraig Harrington: The Grinder | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...March 8, I took a $73 taxi home from an airport in New Jersey. The alternative was to take a shuttle to a $15 train to the subway. It was late - the train would have left New Jersey at about midnight - so I sprang for the cab. It didn't feel like a big deal at the time. But that was early in the month - long before I knew that I'd be left with just $100 and eight days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Less Can You Spend? | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...recent Sunday, Keley Hill piloted a 39-ft. (12 m) Midnight Express powerboat near the border. The boat sloshed in the 4-ft. (1.2 m) chop, running lights out to avoid detection. Supervisory agent Mark White stood on the bow, peering through night-vision goggles that revealed an empty sea clear out to Coronado island, 8 miles (13 km) away. Hill, director of the CBP's marine-interdiction unit in San Diego, busied himself scanning the green squiggles on the radar screen and radioed to agents in helicopters hovering above the coastline. "They're the bird dogs," Hill says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watching for Immigrants Off California's Coast | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...just in time, FAS has announced that e-mail will be down from midnight until 7 a.m. today. But never fear! Those of you using @college will still be able to check your blackberries/iphones obsessively in the early hours of the morning...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna | Title: Happy Spring Break/FAS e-mail is down | 3/22/2009 | See Source »

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