Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Timothy C. Harte '90, a resident tutor in Kirkland House, crosses into Ashland during today's 103rd running of the Boston Marathon, he will have added incentive to keep hammering away at the 26.2 mile course...
...Boston Marathon--one of this state's greatest spectator and participatory events--takes place on Patriots Day. The city is shut down anyway, and people who would normally be at work or school take time out to line the streets cheering for those determined enough to take the 26.2-mile challenge. A lucky few get tickets for the Red Sox's annual early game, and there's generally a spirit of enthusiasm in the air. It is a time to celebrate the pride of the Commonwealth and enjoy a free Monday...
...same kind of thinking occurs in Foster's unfinished project for the British Museum. When its library moved to massive new premises a mile away, it left behind one of the great English spaces: the 1857 Round Reading Room designed by Sydney Smirke, with its shallow dome, surrounded by a two-acre internal court. To demolish this masterpiece would have been unthinkable. It had to be preserved, and Foster's scheme for so doing entailed sweeping away the clutter of now obsolete bookstack buildings from around it and covering the court with a light glass-and-steel roof, thus creating...
...seeded runner does a Boston Marathon mile in 4.92 minutes...
...have a huge humanitarian disaster on our hands." The roads leading out of Kosovo were trails of suffering. At least 500 elderly Albanians, too sick and weary to go on, were abandoned by the roadside on the way to Rozaje. On Friday NATO spokesman Shea reported that a six-mile line of some 25,000 refugees had formed on the border with Macedonia. "We're seeing ladies in slippers, children with no shoes and socks," he said. In Albania the refugees' dismal plight was further prolonged by the authorities' cumbersome registration procedures. Even as refugees flowed over the borders...