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...freshmen other than Sillants won events in their Harvard debuts: Andrea Li cleared 11 feet to win the pole vault, and Breeanna Gibson made a 12.13-meter throw to win the shot...
...first time in 50 million years, the North Pole melted last August, according to a report in The New York Times. Now, it appears that the good citizens of Florida have sent two former oil company executives to the highest offices in the land. To top it all off, a U.N. summit on climate change broke up in The Hague over the weekend in the usual acrimony over who gets to pay for pricey pollution-control measures...
There Rich glimpsed a life beyond his fractious home. Sneaking into a lonely, darkened Broadway theater, he saw the crew strike the set, leaving behind a naked light bulb on a tall pole--a "ghost light," meant to ward off spirits. That image--the idea of the theater as a welcoming place where the light never goes out--sparked in him "the fantasy that I might extract some glittering consolation prize for being different and alone." Rich became a theater geek nonpareil, an awkward Jewish kid who, making his Bar Mitzvah, recognized the designer of the temple's ark from...
...mean awesome! I was totally psyched! I figured to win the 200-m freestyle and the single scull. But who would have thought I'd also take the decathlon, the triathlon and the mathlon, not to mention the pommel horse, the high horse, the gift horse and the pole vault with horse? By the time I got to the 50,000-m, trans-Sydney long jump, I was wiped. The Games take their toll on an old sport...
Even though Maui is 7,300 miles from the North Pole, Santa will make it there in time--in an outrigger canoe. But instead of "Merry Christmas!" he'll probably be calling out "Mele Kalikimaka...