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Instead of holding it at the 1980 Olympic Rink in Lake Placid, N.Y., as it has done since 1993, the ECAC packed its bags and headed down I-87 for the more spacious confines of Albany’s Pepsi Arena...
Hockey purists cringed at the thought of the league leaving Lake Placid, a hockey haven and home of the “Miracle...
...placid skies on Sunday afternoon belie the fevered pitch in Quincy House Courtyard as two titans of the tiles met to see which Harvard student can best spell long and/or obscure words out of tiny white squares. A stoic Thomas, clad in a blue-and-gray shirt and khakis, shakes hands with a fidgety Washkowitz. Drawing letters from the bag to determine who goes first, Washkowitz wins. Shifting in his seat, he squints in the sunlight and scrutinizes his rack, placing VOID on the board. Thomas quickly counters with MAT, using the “A” to morph...
...inhabitants. Where I recall apartments and ramshackle shops crowding the river's concrete banks, large tracts have been opened up, running for several miles through flowerbeds and past Seoul's business and government heart. Here is congestion of a different sort: zealous bikers, skaters and joggers compete with more placid lovers and retirees for room on the new pedestrian thoroughfare. A tree-planting campaign is in full swing along the Han?after three years and 15 million new trees, the city's once crushing expanses of concrete and neon are now awash with the pale green of ginkgoes, chosen...
...love hockey. I love to keep playing. I’m 27, so I’m young enough,” Mleczko said. “A lot of it is the geography of it. It’s a commitment of going to live in Lake Placid, for me being married and having to give up a lot of time from my personal life. It’s a fact of life a lot of Olympic athletes have to go through...