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...hard work has finally paid off for Maureen Gildea. Coach Vicki Hays expects her to swim in the league championships next weekend. It's been a long, hard road back. But Maureen Gildea is no stranger to hard work, nor is she a stranger to long roads. When the Navy brat weighs anchor at the Ivies next weekend with a working knee, she can claim to have won her greatest victory...

Author: By Barak Goodman, | Title: Swimmer Overcomes Knee Injury | 2/12/1982 | See Source »

...lost his fight. "Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature," said Emerson. Exactly. So the man in the water had his own natural powers. He could not make ice storms, or freeze the water until it froze the blood. But he could hand life over to a stranger, and that is a power of nature too. The man in the water pitted himself against an implacable, impersonal enemy; he fought it with charity; and he held it to a standoff. He was the best we can do. -By Roger Rosenblatt

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Man in the Water | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

Paul eventually nods; then says faintly: "Aye. Revenge." As if to make his case forever, Joseph thrusts his face toward the American stranger. "You. You'd take revenge too, wouldn't you, Mister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belfast: Nothin's Worth Killing Someone | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...very last step of the Widener stacks staircase stands a single wooden desk in the corner where Church History and Theology meets Chinese History and Literature. A thin, spectacled figure sits hunched over it; he looks up in surprise when a stranger approaches him. "This desk? I found it more or less by accident a while ago, looking for a book. It's nice," he says...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: A Desk of One's Own | 1/6/1982 | See Source »

...returns to his book--The Family and Alternate Lifestyles. "This must be a good place to come work during reading period," the stranger says. "Work?" says the reader. "I'm an engineering major. I just came down here to do some leisure reading...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: A Desk of One's Own | 1/6/1982 | See Source »

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