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...five cities in four different regions of the U.S. By age 14, he had held 16 part-time jobs, delivering newspapers and selling magazines in Illinois; raising chickens, watermelons and cantaloupes in North Carolina; chopping wood, delivering ice and digging razor clams in the Pacific Northwest; gardening and doing odd jobs in California. After high school he wrestled at Princeton and pinned down a degree in political science. And after a three-year stint as a Navy pilot, he became an investment banker in Chicago...
...sure” that Shaw had been talking about him, and that the former dean may in fact be “referring to another, more recent applicant.” He also said that “the comparison [between him and Rahmatullah] is a little odd,” as he was a not “special-status student” like Rahmatullah and had previously been a member of the anti-Soviet resistance, not the Taliban...
...found out that you can lead the Harvard student to Mexican waters, but you can’t make her have sex with anyone. The University’s policy of bizarrely timed breaks that keep students from interacting with students from other colleges worked wonders. Aside from the odd Stanford sighting, Harvard kids basically looked at each other and thought, “Even though I feel sorry for you because your ‘tan’ makes you look like a burn victim, I still don’t want to juice you. Would it be terribly...
...Gate, the psychedelic opening track (and the odd choice for the album's first single), sets up the collection, describing a traveler's arrival at a strange and soulless city after a long voyage. From there, Roberts says, songs zoom in and out from general attributes of the imaginary (but representative) city to specific incidents that take place there. "I think the whole idea of this record is travel," he says...
...lead into the half, and scored four straight times in the third.“We made some serious blunders,” Farrar said. “People were leaving and we just didn’t go with them. We gave up way too many odd-women rushes that didn’t need to happen, so we need to make some adjustments there.”Hartwick scored five counter-attack goals, compared to none for Harvard.Keyser and Mehaffey each scored twice for the Crimson, which scored more than twice as many goals than...