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...neighborhood, we don't think the Postal Service is so efficient. We joke that the mail still arrives by burro. Not long ago, it took one of my letters 10 days to go half a mile. Maybe mule train would be better. CINDY BELLINGER Pecos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1998 | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...seemed headed the wrong way. Harvard, which was playing its first hockey in three weeks due to exams, surrendered an early goal to Colby senior forward Meghan Sittler. When the two teams had previously squared off on Dec. 6 Sittler headlined the scoring column in a 7-5 White Mule...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Hockey Splits Blowouts | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Instead, the Crimson got to the White Mule net, ripping off seven successive goals. Asano shredded Colby with three goals and an assist. Sophomore defenseman Christie MacKinnon added two goals, including the first of her Harvard career, and one assist, Gerometta fired in two more goals for the Crimson...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Hockey Splits Blowouts | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Some evidence also exists of a traveling Puritan show similar to the early 80s television series "The Dukes of Hazzard," where two wily Puritan brothers running contraband hat buckles evade the county sheriff on an extremely fast and maneuverable mule. The end of the show featured a simulated mule chase, ending when the sheriff's mule flips over and lands upside down in the bushes, causing him to say simulated curses like "dag-nab-bit" and "razza-frackin." The main difference from the modern-day version is that, instead of escaping at the end of the show, the Dukes were...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Achy-Breaky Harvard | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

...fall in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, and Jacob Stoltzfoos is working his field much the way his forebears did three centuries ago--tugging at the yoke of a Belgian draft mule. The only sounds he hears are the snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the simple mechanical whirl of his corn-harvesting machine and the creak of his oak-plank wagon as he hauls another stack of feed corn to his son-in-law's silo. Like their ancestors, Jacob and his kin light their farmhouses with gas lanterns and drive carriage horses--never automobiles--back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A DARK INHERITANCE | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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