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...Golden State that inspire those who were born or moved there. Painter David Hockney talks about leaving drab England for sunny L.A., where he captured on canvas the colors that shimmer across swimming pools. Writer Maxine Hong Kingston discusses how growing up in a Chinese home in racially integrated Stockton helped her learn about different sensibilities. Jazzman Dave Brubeck, who grew up on a ranch in Ione, recalls how he heard polyrhythms in the sound of a galloping horse. As writer and native daughter Joan Didion notes, "California influenced everything about...
...final match of the spring break trip was the only one Harvard could feel proud about. Playing against the No. 43 University of the Pacific, in Stockton, the Crimson pulled itself together and executed a 5-2 upset over the Tigers. Harvard won two of the three doubles, including Doran and Swart's tense 9-8 (3) win at No. 1, to get the doubles point...
Finally, Harvard travels to Stockton, Calif., to face the University of the Pacific (10-2). The Tigers may be the hottest team the Crimson will face, as they are riding a six-match winning streak, including wins over higher-ranked Louisville and University of California-Irvine. Those wins propelled Pacific from No. 62 last week to No. 36 in the latest ITA rankings. The Tigers are led by their No. 1 singles player, Dietrich Haug...
...school senior year in Argentina, had joined the Sunds for a three-month vacation. The Sunds had shown her Disneyland and the Bay Area, and on Feb. 12, Sund flew to San Francisco with the girls and rented a car so they could drive to Yosemite. They stopped in Stockton, where Julie Sund competed in a state cheerleading contest, then continued to the park, arriving two days later...
...kind of looking forward to the whole thing," says my mother-in-law, who lives in a cabin near the tiny hamlet of Emigrant. "It all sounds kind of cozy to me, using candles instead of lightbulbs, toodling over to the neighbors to share their rations." Stockton White, owner of the Lazy Heart Guest Lodge and a volunteer on the Park County search-and-rescue team, is less romantic but just as hopeful. Instead of a softly lighted millennial tea party, White foresees a bucket-brigade atmosphere. "I'm relying on the community. Everyone will pitch in, I expect, fixing...