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...section, I saw a wide circle of people standing near Thayer Hall. At the center of the circle sat an enormous red-tailed hawk, clutching a dead squirrel between its talons. I braved the cold weather for nearly half an hour to watch this beautiful, strange bird. One woman snuck closer to take pictures with a telephoto lens; another bystander filmed the al fresco meal with a video camera...
...Just as MIT snuck behind us to win the college level this year with a score of five out of six points, we crept up behind Princeton last year and took their title," McClelland said. --Jordana R. Lewis
...Just as MIT snuck behind us to win the college level this year with a score of five out of six points, we crept up behind Princeton last year and took their title," McClelland said...
Others skipped the bridge entirely. They drove to the 21st century on the ground below--driving to work, driving their kids to soccer practice, driving to Blockbuster to rent "Titanic," driving to Barnes and Noble to buy "A Civil Action" and "Cold Mountain." Every so often these people snuck a glance up at the bridge to nowhere; after all, the ugly, low-hanging structure (which they were paying for) cast a heinous shadow over their idyllic suburban landscapes, insulting their aesthetic sensibilities and corrupting their children. And it paid to look up occasionally, if only to make sure you weren...
This year my vacation excitement was squashed even before I even got home. I snuck away within minutes of my last section, speeding off to the Delta Shuttle at Logan. A friendly businessman seated next to me struck up a conversation. Correctly identifying me as a college student, he asked the usual questions, including whether I was happy to be done with my exams. He blanched when I told him about our raw deal. Was I going to study at home, during the holidays? Unlikely, I answered. Yet inevitably on the way home from the airport I was thinking about...