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...more than 170 injured, I was sitting in the ninth car of the Colonial contemplating moving to a non-smoking car further ahead. It was in those cars, near the front of the train, that the 15 lost their lives. Earlier, I had moved from an uncomfortable car nearer the rear of the train...
...defensive tackle's offensive sidelight, which had been so symbolic of Bear dominance. Ditka, who for the moment acknowledges the New York Jets as the N.F.L.'s foremost team, has pledged Perry will carry the ball again "as soon as his weight gets a little nearer to a vicinity we'd like." Asked what vicinity it occupies now, Ditka replies, "Chicago." This season's odd shadow is being cast by Doug Flutie, the 5-ft. 9-in. quarterback from Boston College, whose Heisman Trophy two years ago appeared to have been sculpted to scale. After settling his seven-figure account...
...saving the world, he becomes a benign but remote member of his own household: "Not for the first time he felt the simplicity of the great issues, he knew exactly what should be done about South Africa and urban poverty and the bomb. It was the small events, those nearer home, that seemed to him forever shrouded in mystery...
First Novelist Goodman fictionalizes this authentic American romance from its heady undergraduate days to the mournful playing of Nearer, My God, to Thee in a rainy French graveyard. In the process he anatomizes the fatal innocence that accepted the conflict over there as an extension of the field and the rink. Goodman's debt to The Great Gatsby is manifest: his narrator, Jeb Runcible, regards his classmate much as Nick Carraway viewed Jay Gatsby. But the author's voice is his own, and as Jeb becomes progressively disenchanted, the golden pilot goes into a nose dive, changing from superhero...
There's nothing wrong with Harvard trying to sell the Black Rock land. Faced with how to dispose of a property that is inconvenient for Harvard--which conducts virtually all of its limited forestry work at the nearer, better maintained Petersham site--but immensely valuable to schools and organizations nearby, the University is taking care to transfer it into good hands, and is including numerous safeguards in the sale agreeement to protect the integrity of the land...