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...little concerned for my safety, I decided to call the Harvard University Campus Escort Program (HUCEP), but not without some reluctance. Social norms dictate that no man, no Harvard man, no “real” man, should be afraid to walk a puny half mile across a well-populated college campus at midnight. I, like all other Harvard men, didn’t like the idea of being escorted somewhere. No one wants to be seen having his hand held crossing Mount Auburn Street. No one likes admitting that he is a potential target of a nighttime crime...
Michalow conceived the idea of an expedition for Harvard undergrads following a trip in October covering the Presidential Traverse, a 26-mile hike spanning the 11 peaks that comprise New Hampshire’s Presidential Range...
...Above 3,000 feet, the trail became a combination of deep, soft snow and ice. Many of the trips reported that they were going half-a-mile per hour in parts,” Michalow said...
...brothers--Oxford graduates, track stars and sports journalists--were also right-wing political activists, and Ross was murdered by the I.R.A. in 1975. Norris played his own role in one record performance in 1954: he was the announcer who described Roger Bannister's breaking of the 4-min.-mile barrier...
...finally reach the Arlington T-station after collecting some of the free food and drink the course planners were offering. Though it’s only three-eighths of a mile from the finishing point to here, I’m now moving about 11 times slower than I was during the marathon...