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After my morning exam, I rode my bike into Boston to celebrate the weather. The Charles (the River, I mean; not the Stuart) was still frozen. It didn't care that this was Exam Period...
...ferried cheering, champagne-drinking East German refugees to the West. Then, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, joyous citizens of the Democratic Republic stuffed themselves into their Trabis and poured through border crossings for shopping sprees and dreams of reunification. The Trabant became the car a country rode to freedom. By all rights, it should be hailed as the little engine that could. But it really can't. In this fable, the ugly duckling finds love but stays ugly...
...three years before Corazon Aquino rode a wave of national anger to become President of the Philippines, one of the country's most astute political observers made an eerily prescient assessment. "So she becomes the rallying point," he said. "Immediately, corruption will increase. Everybody will feather his nest. At that point, she will be nudged to the side and be made a scapegoat for the mess. Then the military will take over. They will say, 'Well, we've given you your chance.' But they will have made sure she would fail. They will then throw her to the people...
...Santa rode the red line home from work last night...
Harvard, however, stunned Colgate with sometough forechecking and amazing speed early in thethird period. Young rode a Red defender off thepuck and then took it into the zone for anunassisted tally just 1:34 into the period tostart the late-game battle...