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Amidst this dark, frenetic atmosphere, however, a phenomenon of rebellion, of hope, has sprung up. Students are slaying the proverbial dragon of "Thou Shalt" and regretlessly pencilling in what is increasingly being called "sun time," time spent doing the non-constructive--sun bathing, playing frisbee, baseball--or even, for the more Anglophilic, cricket, in one of the more beautiful springs in recent memory...
...game is a rite of spring. The only time "pring has sprung" makes sense to me is after Roger Clemens launches a 100-mile-per-hour fastball. The game consumes me, envelops me, shapes me. I have ditched class, missed tests, and created phony dentist excuse notes because of the game. I would rob a bank if that is what it took to go to the game again next year...
...took the Crimson almost 10 minutes to regain its senses, but when vengeance was taken it came in a hurry. Junior Steve Martins was in the middle of both goals, scoring his 17th of the year at 10:38 and then unleashing a vicious check that sprung Cory Gustafson to find Thomas' five-hole only 11 seconds later...
When Boris Yeltsin's 63rd birthday rolled around last Tuesday, a reporter was unable to resist asking Victor Chernomyrdin whether he had sprung any special surprises on his boss. "We presented him with a huge bouquet of flowers," Chernomyrdin solemnly intoned. "We doubt if he received a bigger one from anyone else. We knew we couldn't allow this. Ours was the best...
...leak has sprung in the solution to Fermat's last theorem, the famous equation that has intrigued mathematicians for 350 years. The 200-page proof that Princeton mathematician Andrew Wiles unveiled with such panache last summer turns out to have a flaw. "I believe I will be able to finish this in the near future," Wiles told colleagues...