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...Without bothering to bargain, I agreed. Setting off over the Yalu bridge behind my armed tour guide, I felt briefly like the hero from a John le Carr? thriller, soon to be swapped for a rival spy. At the midway point my keeper motioned me quickly off to the side. The daily train to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, approached from Ji'an, its coal-fueled engine blowing black smoke and steam into the clear, summer sky. The imposing engine lurched by within feet of us, the wooden bridge shuddering under its weight. The train's handful of North Korean...
This is Boston’s South End: an intriguing dale of pansy-overflowing window boxes and expansive homeless shelters, where Zagat’s best-rated Thai restaurant in Boston sits midway between the water-treatment facility on the riverbank and the Miller art gallery in a converted sweatshop. In contrast to its well-explored, much-touted Northern counterpart, the South End is a pristinely blank page in the mental guidebooks to Boston compiled by most students in the area...
...last weekend of October and Harvard’s perfect season was on life-support as the Crimson trailed the Big Green 21-0 midway through the third quarter. All-Ivy senior quarterback Neil Rose and senior tailback Josh Staph, the team’s leading rusher, were injured and could only look on helplessly as the dream season spiraled into a nightmare. Junior tailback Nick Palazzo was playing with a nagging hamstring injury...
Clinging to a 28-23 lead midway through the fourth quarter, the Crimson pieced together a nine-play, 75-yard drive highlighted by a 12-yard run on a reverse by Morris. A 16-yard touchdown pass from Rose to Morris secured sole possession of the Ivy title and the Crimson’s first perfect season since...
With the lead, Harvard continued to apply pressure to Penn in all facets of the game. On a fourth down play midway through the fourth quarter, Crimson senior Rodney Thomas took advantage of a blown defensive assignment to record Harvard’s first blocked punt in two years...