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...wanted to live the life of a daring, brash, fun-loving flyer, indifferent to the hazards of his profession, calm and stoic when the adrenaline flowed, fatalistic about life-and-death situations," McCain explained in Pensacola. "In truth, the image I aspired to was, in the end, only irresistible to one person - me, and it was a very childish attraction...
...Utter the phrase "natural childbirth" and the mind envisages a stoic and earnest woman, surrounded by murmuring midwives in a softly lit room, where ambient music plays and tea lights flicker. Upon the elapse of some decent, manageable labor, she pushes out her baby with honest grunts. While that may be true for some, for most women natural childbirth is one of the most violent physical traumas they will ever experience, bar a serious accident or grievous assault. The average length of labor for a first-time mother is anything from seven to 12 hours, but it can easily...
Regardless of having never played on a winning team during his career in Cambridge, Unger had remained the epitome of a stoic warrior continuing to battle in spite of inevitable defeat...
Each and every day, crowds of tourists—cameras in hand—swarm a seated, stoic John Harvard. While the statue—the third most photographed in the United States—and its supposedly lucky golden toe act as the hub of tourist activity in Harvard Yard, other statues and paintings that adorn the Yard manage to attract little more than dust—and maybe a protective tarp or two. But both students and Harvard staff agree that their neglect is due less to student apathy than to a dearth of readily available information about...
...playing the game,” as the title of a book on Ivy League recruiting puts it, more power to them. Harvard has been the second kind of dog in the dog-eat-dog world of hoops recruiting for too long.Amaker, for his part, is diplomatic and stoic to a fault. He has refused to comment on the story. He has let robotic releases from the University spokesman and the admissions office serve as responses to Thamel’s broadside. If he’s clean, if his staff is clean, he should say so. He shouldn?...