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...beat went on. Junior Darin Shearer finished first in the 500 meters and the 1000 meters, junior Shane Mauricette won the 55 meter hurdles, Bowen added an 800 meter victory and sophomore Steve Brannon topped it all of with a win in the pole vault...
...this." The fire spared his four-bedroom tract home, but the rains got it in spite of the 4- ft.-high barricade of mud he constructed as the waters rose. He ticked off his losses, saying finally his situation was "like a sinking ship." He picked up a pole with a squeegee affixed to one end and began clearing away mud, his third day of clearing away mud. (In many areas there was nothing to impede the terrible mud slides because the wildfires of 1993 had destroyed all the vegetation...
...Harvard men's track team, some of that hard work paid off this Saturday at Gordon Track. In a meet that--in the words of pole Vaulter Steve Brannon--Harvard expected to win by "a pessimistic one point," the thinclads annihilated Northeastern...
After Brannon (15'9") and senior Trevor Barcelo (12'9.5") took first and third respectively in the pole vault, sophomore distance runner Ian Carswell turned in an inspirational performance in the mile, out-kicking a Northeastern runner at the end of the race by two-tenths of a second...
...wrote the Romantic-era Polish poet Juliusz Slowacki in 1848, lines so visionary and improbable -- a Pole as Supreme Pontiff! -- that few, even in long-suffering Poland, believed they would ever come true. In 1938, however, a Polish teenager would be singled out for what would eventually be an appointment with prophecy. In that year, Karol Wojtyla was a student -- and an actor of considerable promise -- at a secondary school in the grimy industrial town of Wadowice. As the school's prize orator, he was asked to deliver a speech welcoming a grand visitor, the princely Adam Sapieha, scion...