Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Look for junior Jamie Simone to spearhead the Bruins' running game and for safety-turned-wide receiver-turned-quarterback Keiron Bigby to pick up where Kettelberger left off. An offensive line which boasts four returning 250-pounders is likely to be Brown's greatest strength this fall as the Bruins seek to improve on the 4-3 Ivy mark they have recorded each of the past two campaigns...
...Airport (LAX) may be even more hazardous than it was eight years ago. Says one 747 captain: "You get below 10,000 ft., and it becomes almost suicidal not to devote a tremendous amount of attention outside the cockpit. I can't tell you how difficult it is to pick up a small airplane...
This may be just as well, for there is evidence that they pick up precious little in four years from some of the school's world-class scholars. Many top Harvard faculty, say critics, tend to be too engrossed in their own research, too busy with outside consulting or just too lordly to bother with anything so trivial as an undergraduate. One eager junior, preparing to write a paper on relations between the U.S. and China, asked for an appointment with Ross Terrill, then director of Harvard's East Asian Studies programs. After a long delay (standard heel cooling...
...which is less than he pays several of his deans. He was the first president since 1911 who chose not to live in the presidential mansion in the Yard, preferring to remain in his colonial home in Elmwood. As he walks across the Yard, he often stoops to pick up pieces of litter...
...merely a case number. I pray that the agonizing we have done in order to accept the inevitability of this decision has been the worst part of it and we will greatly appreciate anything you can do to ease the finalizing technicalities and to enable us to pick up the fragments of our lives...