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Fairer days are just around the corner: An enthusiastic crowd of 15,000 watched as groundhog Punxsutawney Phil failed to see his shadow early Tuesday morning...
Daily Spin "It's the only thing that happens here." ? Thomas Jobe, 20, explaining why he joined 15,000 other spectators in Punxsutawney, Pa., to witness whether Phil the groundhog would see his shadow. Phil did, forecasting six more weeks of winter...
Clearly, the sound and fury of that November afternoon signified something. Harvard, which had to climb out of more holes than Punxsutawney Phil last year, commandeered a 21-0 lead and made the Bulldogs play catch-up. And, as the tension swelled to a crescendo, Harvard checkmated Yale at midfield on the Elis' final drive...
Spring is just around the corner, at least according to Punxsutawney Phil, the famous forecasting groundhog in Punxsutawney, Pa. Phil did not see his shadow when pulled out of his burrow this morning. Only clouds. According to the century-old tradition, this means that spring will arrive early. Maybe so, but meterologists are predicting a winter storm on the east coast this weekend...
Instead he is trapped in time. He wakes up the next day to discover it is still Feb. 2. The same people he saw on Groundhog Day say the same things; the same unforeseen snowstorm blows into town; Punxsutawney is Brigadoon. Phil is angry, then reckless, then depressed, then suicidal. Yet he can't die, he can't escape. He can only change. So in the dozens of Groundhog Day replays, he puts his familiarity with the town to humane use: a child falls from a tree and, because Phil knows it will happen, he can catch...