Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 15, three-year-old Jacob Smith left the side of his mother, who had traveled from New York to act in an American Repertory Theatre production. The pair were descending a staircase leading from the main lobby to the basement of the 25 year-old Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The toddler ducked between a nearly three-foot-wide gap in the stair railing and fell one story to the concrete floor...
...mother] had heard there was a really good school on the East Coast," says Rodriguez. "I know it's cliche-ish, but she told me if I worked hard, I could do whatever I wanted to do, and that I could go to that school...
...When my mother came across a photocopy of myapplication with this little bit of dementia onit, she was sure my chances of getting in haddisappeared. But Harvard took me anyway. Thesecond crack in my application armor was revealedonly after I was accepted, so no one could do muchabout it. My parents were aware of this one,though, because they let it slip...
...race--the varsity heavyweight eights--the Black and White finished fourth. But the racing itself did not tell the entire story of the regatta. It was Mother Nature...
High winds made for very choppy water and great difficulty lining up the racing shells on the stake-boats at the starting line. Race organizers decided not to mess with Mother Nature, and deemed the course to be unrowable for the two days the heats and finals were supposed to be have been held...