Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...common is teeming with people when I arrive. Tens of thousands of alternateens fill the park--most of them too young to vote--with pockets of older folks mixed in. There are a smattering of signs calling for "decriminalization," but the atmosphere is that of a huge party of very calm people. Letters to Cleo, an announcer tells us, is about to take the stage; I almost tripped over Robert Reich, but I can't even get close enough to Letters to Cleo to see them...
...women's team, eager for this to be the season that Harvard beats Dartmouth at Heptagonals, finished in third place, thanks to a strong showing by its top four runners, and proved that the Big Green speed demons are catchable. On the men's side, the race at Franklin Park was the first chance for a young team to race together and stake out its own identity...
...Green can consistently back up such bravado, since the team has dominated Heps for the past few seasons, but that didn't keep the Crimson from taking offense at it. After all, Franklin Park is Harvard's home course...
Those of us who grew up in the Midwest had trouble playing without a net, so every Sunday one of us stood on the playground's trash can and taped our own net to the rim. For weeks the park-department employee in charge of the playground eyed this scene sullenly...
...imagine that park-department employee inventing beach volleyball. For one thing, he was always fully clothed. Also, had he been working on the Southern California beach where beach volleyball was presumably invented, he would have thought of some reason why volleyball couldn't be played. He would have said the posts made marks in the sand...