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...kinds. And he developed an almost obsessive attraction to travel. In 1913, at 15, he journeyed alone through Europe for four months before returning to the U.S. for prep school. He was, he said, "a fanatical sightseer," and he visited cities, museums and other sites with a relentless and methodical efficiency. That thirst for knowledge and experience--at times, it seemed, an almost undifferentiated thirst, a quest to see and know about everything, large and small, important and arcane--helped determine the direction of his career...
Dartmouth used excellent ball movement on offense and relentless pressure on the defensive end of the floor to rattle the Ivy League champions and eventually record the upset. A sloppy Harvard squad committed 24 turnovers on the night, which the Big Green converted into 27 points...
...mayor. What might be considered the Frank Perdue school of urban analysis holds that Giuliani is popular precisely because New Yorkers, now more optimistic about the possibility that the city might be manageable after all, see him as the sort of person it takes to do the managing--a relentless proctor who is burdened by neither a sense of irony nor a sense of proportion. Once you put yourself in the hands of someone like that, of course, you'd better take care to cross the street only at designated crosswalks...
...event proved to be a nail-biter, as Iwahara took the lead from the start and tried to hold off her relentless competitors. The last 10 yards gave her Princeton rival just enough time to take the victory by one tenth of a second...
...garden apartment in inland Florida, an hour from the ocean. She and Robert, afoot beside the Florida highway, have their Thanksgiving dinner at the Chirping Chicken and try to come to terms with their memories of the good Bobby and the bad Bobby--knowing all the while that the relentless Bobby is out there and after them: a heartbreaking game of hide-and-seek. Quindlen understands the dilemmas of these lives, never exaggerates, and captures the evil perfectly because (if this makes sense) she never demonizes...