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This was not a game in which UConn (8-0) dominated everything and Harvard (3-2, 0-0 Ivy) somehow scraped together a shot and a lucky goal. Especially in the second half, the contest was dead even and could have easily gone either way. The Crimson was outshot, 23-6, but both teams had 10 penalty corners...
...wondered (echoing the thoughts of many seniors before me) whether I had somehow failed to take advantage of the "true" college experience. But then I remembered where I was: Radcliffe Yard, a small quadrangle which is often overlooked by new students, but which stands for the most memorable of my college experiences. This Yard--and the buildings and people which is metaphorically encompasses as part of "Radcliffe College--epitomizes (for me at least) the possibilities of college itself...
Does that mean that taking DHEA can somehow stave off the aging process? When scientists tested this proposition on animals, they found to their astonishment that it seemed to do just that. When older, slower mice were given DHEA, they became more active and learned as easily as younger rodents to run mazes. Other studies suggested that the hormone may help fight cancer, diabetes and heart disease...
...Somehow the McCourts got by, on driblets from Eire's dole and Angela's uppity kin, who berated her for marrying a sodden Ulsterman. Christmas dinner was no stuffed goose, but a lowly pig's head. No wonder young Frank dimly viewed Catholic priests preaching sacrifice to the pews while lorries delivered riches to their rectories. "Lent, my arse," he mused. "What are we to give up when we have Lent all year long...
...receives a phone call inviting him to a dinner party in London being given by a wealthy American for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Theroux accepts and then, on the day of the occasion, conceives the idea that the Queen can somehow cure his malaise. At the party he hears and reports on royal conversations, including the Queen's comment on the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, whom she had recently met: "He had splendid hair. Fuzzy wuzzy hair!" As she is leaving, the Queen looks at Theroux and says, "You're in a frightful muddle, aren...