Word: polos
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Hundreds, dressed in the requisite fancy “garden-party attire,” attended the fourth annual Harvard vs. Yale Charity Polo Match on May 21 to watch Ivy League graduates square off in a friendly contest organized by the Charity Network of New York City (CNNYC...
...match was held at the Greenwich Polo Club at Conyers Farm in Greenwich, Conn. The club, established in 1981, is considered one of the most elite polo facilities in the United States...
...enrichment, and no two among us have had exactly the same meal. What we have shared instead is the discovery that you can be anything that you can imagine. That is--you can be anything, but you cannot be everything. Perhaps you can play for HRO and the Water Polo team, be marshal of Phi Beta Kappa and consul of Sigma Chi, as well as love the Garden State. But even the most conscientious overachiever is hard-pressed to do it all at the same exacting level of type-A perfectionism for which we Harvard students are notorious...
...problem, doctors say, is that children are specializing in sports at a younger age. Then they simply overdo it, playing in three or four soccer leagues instead of just one, for example, or stressing the same parts of the body year round with very similar sports--like swimming, water polo and volleyball...
...Controversy over the existence of Pygmies in Indonesia's numberless islands is centuries-old. Writing in the 14th century, Marco Polo described how natives of Sumatra would try to sell the mummified bodies of Pygmies to visitors. But, wrote Polo, "'tis all a lie and cheat. Those ... little men ... are manufactured on the island. There is a kind of monkey on the island which is very small and has a face just like a man's. They take these and pluck out all the hairs except on the beard and chest and then they dry them and stuff them...