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...bound to be shaped by tradition, it is also possible, I think, to shape it. The other day I found that a seam in the lining of my coat had split. I mended it with lavender thread; it is not a repair you’d notice unless you turned the lining inside out. Still, it pleases me to think of the lavender stitches, to think that the next person to inherit this coat will look at those stitches and imagine me. In this small, invisible way, I have made...
...game-winning goal came with 4:33 left in the second overtime when senior midfielder Katie Westfall lofted a corner kick toward the box. Sedgwick found a seam among the mass of players and headed the ball over Lions goalkeeper Erissa Aronson and into the back...
...numbers may suggest otherwise. Dean seems to be tapping into a seam of online middle-class resentment. The vast majority of his 59,000 contributors gave less than $250; the average was $112. Dean may not have Gephardt's solid union support, but he is assembling a different kind of volunteer force, one made up of passionate and often disgruntled believers...
...Morris’ 24-yard highlight-reel reception of a pass from Heisman finalist Ken Dorsey on the East’s second offensive series of the game. Dorsey, who last week led the Miami Hurricanes in the national championship game, tossed a rising spiral to Morris on a seam route that the Harvard senior corralled using only his left hand...
...signs that the place is home to a man who navigates his days in a sip-and-puff wheelchair. But those signs are there: the 31-in. spaces between obstacles; the tall-legged dining-room table, allowing the whole family to pull up to dinner together; the stubbornly fraying seam in the living room carpet ("Tire damage," Reeve says with a laugh). But such easy domesticity was hard won for a man whose body suffered such a catastrophic insult...