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...they're willing to pay to be entertained. And they take to their roles with the same unquestioning good nature as college fans at the Homecoming game. It was a boon to everyone's mood that we had October football weather on Dec. 31: clear, with no wind or rain, and the temperature near 50. A beautiful night for an outdoor party...
Suffice it to say that Seymore let it rain last night, lighting up the small Blue Devil court in New Britain by going 5-5 from downtown over the first thirteen minutes of Harvard’s improbable 72-65 victory over his squad...
McConaughey’s words prompt one of the most moving scenes in the movie, in which Strathairn, after driving to the NCAA headquarters and waiting in the pouring rain, catches the NCAA president on his way to his car and pleads for his help. The president’s agreement embodies the theme of community that runs through the film, and the way that its rebuilding is largely attributed to such acts of compassion...
Alexander Litvinenko was buried as he had lived, in a storm. There was rain, hail and a tornado near Highgate Cemetery in north London on the day his lead-lined coffin was lowered into a plot a few yards from that of another dissident who had sought refuge in Britain, Karl Marx. Before the burial, there was a memorial service at a mosque. Several close friends said Litvinenko had converted to Islam a few days before he died, in a kind of atonement for atrocities Russia (and perhaps Litvinenko himself) had committed in Chechnya, although another doubted any conversion...
...advice of the Office of International Programs, my parents, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, friendly strangers from a wide variety of nations, and a few blockmates, I have never studied abroad. I voluntarily remained here in Cambridge: a city which once alternated between rain, hail, and sunshine in the time it took me to walk from Quincy House to William James Hall...