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...medieval Tuscan village of Sutri (pop. about 5,000) is inhabited, says Rips, by sundry eccentrics, among them a blind bootmaker, an old-timer known to possess supernatural powers in the laying of hands on ailing tractor engines and an illiterate postman. In this slight travel memoir, Rips, a displaced Nebraskan, limns the local characters, as well as the Etruscan culture that bred them. These drolleries are best digested over an espresso at a Sutri cafe; failing that, any Starbucks will...
...slight our rowers and sailors, nor the cream of our track and field crop competing at ECACs, but things are getting to the point where I’m ready to stop following the Crimson...
...Beijing would actually force it to be on best behavior for the next seven years - some in Washington argue that the Chinese leadership would be restrained from risking a Tiananmen Square-type crackdown if their prized Olympiad was at stake. So, with most observers holding Beijing as the slight favorite over Paris and Toronto, the China-bashers, human rights advocates, Tibetan independence campaigners and others who hope to stop the IOC awarding it the games are probably not going to prevail. But in the (likely) event their efforts to stop China getting the Games are defeated, the opportunities to promote...
...drop in pain level in legs and upper body, believe hill to be leveling out." My compromised IQ takes some time with this, and after a moment concludes that this development merits investigation. I take a look at some of the other readings coming in and also notice a slight increase in the oxygen supply to my brain. This increase in turn bumps of the efficiency of the whole system and I slowly start thinking again (albeit at a low level). Finally the visual cognition comes in with a signal and I can confirm decisively that I have crested...
While Dartmouth held the slight edge in the “A” division, Harvard blew away the field in the “B” division. Crimson All-American Margaret Gill teamed with Susan Bonney for 12 races and Dan Litchfield for four en route to a low score of 52 points. A remarkable 28 points separated Harvard from second-place Tufts in the “B” division...