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...guard has come a long way since his freshman year, when he was a self-described “pure passer.” Back then, Prasse-Freeman’s game consisted of mainly passing and modest point production. In his Harvard debut in an exhibition contest against St. Francis Xavier, he racked up 10 assists without attempting a single shot...
...much even if they're encouraging. Last year's day-after-Turkey-Day numbers were plump but the rest of the season was lean until after the January markdowns, and the recent trend has been that shopping gets done earlier and earlier every year. This Black Friday could be pure gold and still be the last decent day of the year...
Saturnine Henry Adams, who never much cared for the sunny, tireless Teddy, concluded that Roosevelt "showed the singular primitive quality that belongs to ultimate matter--the quality that medieval theology assigned to God--he was pure act." Morris seems to think so too. But even if he doesn't quite have Teddy's act together, you put down this middle volume looking forward...
TITLE News of the Pure: The Thinking of the Women of Islam...
...according to the inventor. A former Navy combat pilot, Moshier has been working on his creation, at least in his mind, since he was a teenager in the 1960s, although officially his company, Millennium Jets, has been at it only six years. The look of his machine is pure sci-fi: an 8-ft. metal frame supports two gas-engine-powered fans, each 38 in. in diameter, that jut like oversize ears above the frame. The pilot stands on a pair of footrests, straps on a body belt and grabs a joy stick-like controller. Moshier says the Solotrek will...