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POOCH POWER Last month's Chinook Olympics featured sack races and the howling of the Chinook breed's national anthem. Up next: the 13th annual Dog Olympics at North Carolina State
There's nothing like an apron to evoke domesticity. Like a treasured baby blanket, it is rich with sentiment and associations. Store-bought or homemade, flower print or flour sack, an apron does double duty as protection and decoration. An old apron's faded pattern seems a memory of itself. Its soft, well-washed fabric feels as soothing as soup. But an apron also represents a woman kept in her place. The pert hostess aprons of the 1950s, with their printed poodles and cheery appliques, might seem these days to have tried too hard to put a good face...
...quarter of the population sent into temporary exile during a rampage by Indonesian anti-independence militias. When news of a massacre spread, Agueda Fatima Amaral, a marathoner who constitutes half of East Timor's Olympic contingent, gathered up a couple of suitcases under her arms, balanced a sack of rice on her head and joined the thousands running for their lives. Behind her, she could hear gunfire, but Amaral refused to glance back?just as she had trained herself to keep looking forward during the marathon. "Every time before, I had enjoyed running very much," she says. "But this time...
...After trudging through snow with a heavy sack of laundry, it would certainly be disappointing to not have enough money on my card to pay for the machines,” Jennifer R. Schiffman ’06 wrote in an e-mail. “I think I’d also find it equally disappointing to be unable to buy a bag of chips or soda at 3 in the morning due to low funds...
After graduation, Frank is planning to clerk one year for Robert Sack, a judge in the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, and afterwards pursue a career in litigation...