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...From the first tentative settlements in the New World, a tension has existed between the pursuit of individual liberty and the quest for Puritan righteousness, between Benjamin Franklin's open road of individualism and Jonathan Edwards' Great Awakening of moral fervor. The temper of the times shifts from one pole to the other, and along with it the role of the state. Government intrudes; government retreats; the state meddles with morality, then washes its hands and withdraws. The Gilded Age gave way to the muscular governmental incursions of the Age of Reform. The Roaring Twenties gave rise to the straitlaced...
...adventurers from different parts of the world stand where the lines of longitude of all countries meet, (we) believe this journey stands for hope." Minneapolis Teacher Ann Bancroft, 30, tearfully read those words at the North Pole on May 3, marking the emotional end of the first dog-team expedition known to have reached the top of the world without resupply since Robert Peary did it in 1909. The $700,000, 1,000-mile, 55-day trek was grueling; along the way two members of the seven-man, one-woman expedition team had to be airlifted out because of injuries...
Pettis, who had only seven hits in 54 previous at-bats, gave California a 2-0 lead with two out in the third inning when he lined his homer just inside the right-field foul pole...
...limbo contest winner, Audrey C. Mitchell '87, shimmied under a pole about two and a half feet above the ground, besting 20 other entrants...
...bombers assigned to hit it, four dropped 16 laser-guided 2,000-lb. Paveways. The bombs cratered the compound, blew out windows and caved in a wall or two, but they did not flatten any buildings. Gaddafi's tent was still standing, only slightly grazed by a fallen utility pole...