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...anonymous wit scratched those lines on the side of a junked car door and lugged it to a trail near my home in Northern California. The middle of a pristine, ancient redwood grove is the wrong place to find a rusted-out car door, but the words magically transformed the thing from an aggravating piece of junk into art. I Googled the quote as soon as I got home, of course, but found nothing. (Thanks to Google, we live in a world where "I don't know" has become an unacceptable response. So my inability to identify the author there...
...Smith became the 10th governor of Maine and moved the state’s capital from Portsmouth to Augusta. He served during a contentious period marked by tensions between the United States and Canada over the location of Maine’s northern border...
...gives us a lot of options,” Farrar said.Harvard will be returning five freshmen and six sophomores, and players like Livingston and Voith will combine with rising seniors Connolly and David Tune to form a formidable squad capable of turning heads in next year’s Northern and Eastern Championships.“We’re playing tougher opponents now—this is the way the program is going now,” Livingston said. “[A top-four finish] is what we’re shooting for now, and we?...
...team knows that all too well after playing 22 of its 24 games on the road this season.Its daunting schedule included a two-day, five-game road trip to Oneonta, N.Y., a three-game excursion to sunny Southern California, and a four-game stay in Utica, N.Y. for the Northern Championships. The team did not enjoy much respite at home either, dropping both of its home games in routs against admittedly difficult opponents. The season was marked by up and down performances, as the Crimson never won or lost more than two in a row. Amidst the turmoil...
...Until the state's challenge is heard, however, the woman - identified only as a 25-year-old nursing student from northern France - is condemned to play the role of symbol for the many forces that have seized her case as a major cause. The storm broke out last Thursday, when France's national media picked up on the unpublicized April 1 verdict annulling the couple's 10-month marriage on the husband's complaint that his wife's prenuptial assurances of virginity were false. The judge had reasoned that the wife's claimed virginity constituted "an essential quality decisive...