Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...connoisseuring of camp, is not a rejection of more serious things but the elevation of a paltry thing to a thing of significance in a world that often seems short of them. The poster, the fear-masking jeers of the "Love Story" audience, the gas station name patches on Park Avenue kids, all these and a thousand other acts of irony are not a craven turning away from the graveness of life, but a poignant attempt to raise something up out of the ruins of broken ideals without the recourse of myth. Futile, maybe--since irony is never truly constructive...
This is a market that someone should have gotten into a long time ago. As one of the guys behind the Yankees Suck empire said yesterday, "There's a lot of Yankee-haters out there." And never more than this weekend, as the Sox and Yanks met at Fenway Park in the postseason for the first time ever. (I'm not even going to attempt to describe the intensity of the rivalry here. If you're curious, wear a Red Sox hat into Yankee Stadium sometime and find out for yourself...
...meet, held at Harvard's home course, Franklin Park, the Crimson finished fourth place out of 42 teams...
Helen agrees and says, "It is something special to get that far away from the world." A clinical-research nurse, she exercises regularly but had a rough time on the rugged, muddy 9-mile trek up to the base camp in the Machalilla National Park of coastal Ecuador. It was easier for Lee, a biophysicist who at 67 still bikes 30 miles round trip every day between their home in a Philadelphia suburb and his office at the University of Pennsylvania. For their nine days, not including airfare, they paid a little less than $1,600, which is partly...
...many afternoons and evenings, Carnright visited villagers in their homes or met with groups curious about the U.S. and how it differed from Ghana. After her work stint, she spent a week in Accra, where a friend she had made in the village took her to museums, the national park and the beach and told her the history of his country. Reflecting on a summer vacation well spent, Carnright says, "You feel like you have accomplished something. You open things up for people you work with and yourself...