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...Rain or shine, John has been a terrific ambassador for our players and coaches [on the basketball team],” he said. “And I sense he’s been that way in all Harvard athletics...
...Avoid missions during heavy rain as Chatuchak's drainage system can easily overflow. As much of the market is given over to selling pets and wild animals, you could end up wading shin-deep through feculent, brackish ooze. Not a good call if you've been scratching your infernal mosquito bites raw?unless, of course, you intend to go shopping for tetanus, septicemia or worse...
...first outing for British war artists, starting a tradition that has continued up to today's Gulf conflicts. In his new capacity, Nash returned to the front just after the battle of Passchendaele, where the long bombardment had left a wilderness of slime and corpses. "The rain drives on, the stinking mud becomes more evilly yellow, the shell holes fill up with green white water ... O it is unspeakable, Godless, hopeless," he wrote, traumatized but still making color notes. His sketches formed the basis of paintings like We Are Making a New World (1918). The sun sends searchlight beams through...
...square in front of the Glorietta mall they occupied with explosives to deter just such an option. (Just to make sure the deterrence wasn't lost on those monitoring the situation, two mutineers wandered away from the Glorietta to cover one bomb with a plastic garbage bag when rain began to fall.) As the afternoon wore on, more troops and tanks crowded around the square. But negotiations were also being furiously pursued. The mutineers' mall saw an endless train of negotiators - senators, military brass, even family members. The 5 p.m. deadline was extended, then scrapped. In the end, the rebels...
...David Lipsky visited the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on assignment for Rolling Stone. He spent the next four years there, attending classes, doing 10-mile slogs in the rain and watching the 4,000 or so cadets polish their shoes, get drunk, cry and grow up. When it was over, the cadets were lieutenants in the U.S. Army, and Lipsky was the author of Absolutely American (Houghton Mifflin; 317 pages), which, despite its Army-issue title, is a fascinating, funny and tremendously well written account of life on the Long Gray Line...