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...brother Melvin told Martin. The disappointment planted in Graham a determination to prove her wrong; it ripened alongside his commitment to discerning, and obeying, God's will. He would practice sermons aloud in old sheds or in a canoe in the middle of a lake. He ate a quarter- pound of butter a day to try to spread some bulk across his lanky frame, and he worked on his gestures and facial expressions as he traveled to tiny churches or declaimed outside saloons frequented by drunkards and prostitutes, sharing the Gospel...
During the pregame warmups to last night's men's hockey game between Harvard and Yale, Bulldog senior defender James Mackey spent a minute testing the boards behind the goal, throwing his 6'4", 230-pound frame against the plexiglass...
...gourmet coffee is a wine for the nineties. There is the snobbery about country of origin, the niggling distinctions about process of preparation, and the gratuitous use of descriptive yet totally inaccurate adjectives to distinguish flavor. The coffee illuminati can sip their Kenya AA or $30-per-pound Jamaican Blue Mountain while they debate the comparative merit of washed and dry-milled beans with an air of enlightened self-satisfaction...
There was The Main Event: Harvard's Ethan Philpott, a 6'4", 235-pound forward vs. The Goal, a combination of metal and mesh that stands under five feet tall and doesn't weigh too much...
...brushing the sycamore leaves off myself, the thought occurred to me that, yes, I want our army to be tough as much as the next person. But, really, guys, is clearing the bicycle paths of 55 year-old, 110 pound grandmothers going to toughen you up that much...