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...team travels to Jadwin Gym in Princeton, NJ and the Palestra in Philadelphia, PA— places where the Crimson has not won since 1989 and 1991, respectively...
...refused to comment. Radcliffe’s official spokeswoman, Whitney Espich, said only that Faust was not in Cambridge that day. Faust’s whereabouts proved difficult to pin down: an evening call to her house on Brattle Street revealed that she was in Philadelphia, attending a Board of Trustees meeting at Bryn Mawr. The individual who answered the phone—possibly her husband, Harvard professor Charles Rosenberg—said he did not know when she would return to Cambridge. Calls to Philadelphia-area hotels did not yield any confirmation of Faust’s location...
...American consulate. This turned out to be a mistake, since America now had a navy (built at the end of Adams' term during a period of tension with France). President Jefferson sent a squadron to the Mediterranean, where it met with failures and successes. In 1803 the frigate Philadelphia ran aground in Tripoli harbor; America had to burn the stricken ship. On the plus side, in 1805 William Eaton, a feisty diplomat, led a force of Marines, mercenaries and Arab allies 520 miles over the Egyptian desert and captured Tripoli's second largest town (the line in the Marine Corps...
...hero, P.T. Barnum, Gitomer's story is as inspirational as any of the bromides in his books. After dropping out of Temple University ("I went on the six-year you-don't-quite-graduate program, which I completed successfully," he told TIME), Gitomer owned two race horses in Philadelphia, sold mobile-home lots with his father to retirees in Florida and later manufactured and sold sportswear in Manhattan, learning what was missing from his business-school classes. "They don't tell you that somebody's check is going to bounce and you have to go after...
...terms that a child of the prosperous American future can understand. (I'm doubly well-disposed toward House of Meetings because the hero - the narrator's saintly brother - is named Lev, an unusual choice which I accept as an homage a moi.) I reached Amis by phone in Philadelphia, where his book tour has taken him. We chatted about House of Meetings, the ego of the novelist, the boredom of good characters, and why the English hate writers...