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...Mansion of Sullivan County changed everything. After a three-year quest, they had finally found the one, and promised we would move into it soon enough to have Thanksgiving dinner with stuffed haddock, a compromise my parents had to make when I turned annoyingly pesco-vegetarian on them. Evidently, the fact that the property was called “Dream’s Landing” on the deed was irresistible to my father. It blinded him from the property’s very un-mansion-like faults: broken windows, malfunctioning heating, ancient plumbing, peeling wallpaper and even holes...
...last month’s holiday celebrating a mass murderer and racist bigot (Columbus Day) demonstrates, the veritas Smith wants to perpetuate is deeply ingrained in American society, and perhaps a critical look from another perspective might serve all of us well in our quest for truth and knowledge...
Thus, the presidents and athletic directors at the eight schools (the four hockey schools, along with Johns Hopkins, SUNY-Oneonta, Hartwick and Rutgers-Newark) embark on a quest to educate all of the Division III membership—a daunting 424 schools—about the details of this proposal...
...Missile Crisis—except without the missiles, danger of global annihilation or Castro, and it happened in Cambridge,” says Aguilar. However, both presidents can report back to their clubs that they demonstrated some board game entrepreneurship, if not a downright willingness to cheat, in their quest for Boggle glory...
Harvard’s quest for a sole Ivy title has all but faded, but that’s due to the fact that the Ivies don’t use a tiebreaking system. I think the lack of a true champion is ridiculous, but come to think of it, watching the tiebreaker chaos that is the SEC East unfold, it’s possible that some tiebreakers are worse than no tiebreakers...