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...really worthy of Harvard, you're already jockeying for your place in the pantheon. You know where you're going and you're taking the shortest route to get there. FM fully supports such sociopathic tendencies, if only for prurient reasons. Just to give you a leg up on the rest of your peers (they're thinking just like you are, so you don't have a moment to spare) we're giving you this advice: it all comes down to what you're doing during the last few weeks before your first year at Harvard. What's it going...
...decided to go ahead with it. I paid and weighed myself. They wrote my weight on the back of my hand and snapped a blue band around my wrist, indicating I was in the heaviest allowable weight class and should have the strongest and shortest cord. I joined two instructors, two jumpers and two observers. They placed us in seat harnesses, weighed us again and took us to the elevator...
...where they ain't." While Pee Wee Reese successfully employed that strategy, it was "Wee" Willie Keeler who coined the phrase almost a century ago. The 5-foot, 4-inch Keeler led the National League in batting in 1897 with a phenomenal .432 average and is the shortest player in the Hall of Fame...
Thirteen Popes did not serve even as long as John Paul. The shortest reign was that of Stephen. Elected Pope in 752, he died three days later, before consecration...
...ground soldiers of Operation Desert Storm, the shortest road home from Saudi Arabia cuts through Kuwait. But the prospect of traveling along it fills the grunts with dread...