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However, Harvard is no stranger to the three-point weapon, with Rullman, James, McClain and center Peter Condakes able to convert treys at any time. The foursome was 8-for-11 from beyond the three-point stripe against Hartford...
...stress of trying to survive an ambush or a fire fight. Bill Ralph developed his case riding shotgun on fuel trucks engaged in night resupply missions. For seven of the 18 years he has lived in Hawaii, Ralph occupied an 8-ft. by 12-ft. hilltop shack. If a stranger approached, Ralph would slip into the jungle, his knife at the ready. "I didn't even know I was sick," he says. "I just thought I was a little different...
...Graham is no stranger to influential positions. Education leaders say that Graham's nine years here have made a definite impact, not only on the School of Education, but also on national trends in education. Colleagues have praised Graham's ability to fuse research and practice in the field of education, as well as her initiative in shifting the Education School's focus back to the classroom...
Beneath the surface exoticism, Lucas still betrays quite a few rough edges. Would any British memsahib, in 1936, refer to an Indian stranger as "cute" ? Or any native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., talk of "open((ing)) your schmucky gob"? Does the world really need another lecherous British officer dithering, "I say, Lorna, I'm terribly keen on you"? At times, with their perfumed dissolutes and frustrated shrinks, the stories read like crude distillations of the Anglo-Indo-American vignettes of screenwriter-novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, or even like bite-size appetizers for the full-course feast of a Salman Rushdie novel...
...younger brother Marty, a sophomore in Winthrop House, is no stranger to winning, either. At the tender age of eight, his mother--herself a squash and tennis player--found him a squash coach. When the natural athlete turned 11, he entered and won his first tournament. Within a year, he had attained a national ranking of third for the 14-and-under category (and he was Virginia's top-ranked tennis player). When he was 16, he was number one. When he was 17, he was number one. When he was 18, he was number one. and last year...