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...main cluster of building formed a long rectangle, which was set in the middle of a great field. About half a mile to the right the calm edge of the Atlantic Ocean rubbed against a thin strip of sand. The grass was strangely green, despite the season. On the far side of the chapel the vague outlines of athletic fields were etched into the ground, and in the distance, to the left of the science building, stood the tiny observatory, a traditional sanctuary for lovers, or so we had been told...
Gallagher said she "never really expected to win" her events, especially the 5000 meters which she had never run. The only other Crimson first place came in the two mile relay, run by team captain Becky Rogers, Grace DeFries, Mary Herlihy and Kris Linsley...
...fighting quickly spread to Beirut, where artillery duels broke out across the three-mile Green Line that divides the city's Christian and Muslim sectors. In Southern Lebanon, meanwhile, the Israeli-supported Christian forces of Lebanese Major Sa'ad Haddad shelled Muslim and Palestinian sections of the coastal cities of Tyre and Sidon, while Israeli paratroopers launched large-scale attacks against Palestinian strongholds in the area. With concerted international help, Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis managed to obtain a tenuous ceasefire. As International Red Cross convoys rushed into the stricken areas with medical assistance, the country counted...
...Karen Bray, a 29-year-old North Cambridge resident, agrees that Fresh Pond is superior to the Charles for running, although the Charles River toepaths provide courses varying from one mile to 17 miles for the entire circuit...
This talented young writer-director (who won an Emmy with his gritty TV movie The Jericho Mile) has a gift for action and street-snarl dialogue. But he is fatally drawn to making big statements. And repeating them. And acting them out -to make sure his point has penetrated the most thickly armored brain in the house. But all he really has to say is that golden oldie, beloved by people trying to tart up adventure stories: the one about a man having to get down to nothing, to look into the abyss of nonbeing, if he is going...