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...would help bring up all the rest later. The eating itself was exciting and my heart would pound. But once the food had been devoured, I would be overcome with an urgent need to separate myself from it before it took up residence inside me. Nothing could have stood in the way of my getting rid of it, differentiating myself from it--from the toxic bulk that had seemed so like a mother's nurture in the beginning--because if it remained within me, I knew that my life would be snuffed out. Afterward I would collapse into...
...recent years, Harvard’s yield has stood close to 80 percent, usually leading to a freshman class of about 1650 students...
Ryan Lannon hunched over his knees near the goal, his arms stiff, his head down. Welch traced slow, defeated rings around the left faceoff circle. Grumet-Morris stood frozen in the crease, motionless as Wildcats celebrated behind him, until one by one, the Harvard skaters surrounded the goaltender...
...game-winner, punched through by Frozen Four MVP Darwitz on a mishandled puck by Crimson goalie Ali Boe, ended a roller-coaster season for a Harvard (26-7-3) team that stood near .500 after 2004 and rallied to within a single goal of an NCAA title...
Fair and even it was—for a little while. Both boats stood near even after the race’s thirty strokes, but as both crews settled off of the quick start, the Black and White began moving through the Brown boat seat-by-seat. With 1,000 meters down, Radcliffe’s stern sat on Brown’s bow, a full boatlength ahead of its Ivy counterpart...