Word: streaks
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Born to famed paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary, Leakey spent much of his childhood on his parents' fossil-hunting expeditions, developing a love of the outdoors and a marked independent streak. After leaving school at 16, he at first rejected anything to do with fossils and archaeology for fear of being trapped in his parents' shadow. But by the time Leakey was in his late 20s, his team was making important finds. He wrote books on the origin of mankind and headed the National Museums of Kenya before turning to wildlife conservation...
Football at Swarthmore has often felt like an exercise in solitude, and in futility. Coming into the season-opening game against Oberlin, the Garnet Tide had been defeated in 28 straight games--the longest losing streak in college football. Their last win was in 1995, and the final score, 2-0, sounded like that of a soccer match. The school had since considered dropping football altogether. Players quit the team in droves. Only a handful of students showed up to watch Saturday home games. But at this intensely cerebral Quaker college, there has been a revived interest in the fortunes...
...jerseys. "A lot of people don't care about football here," said senior Paul Dickson, an engineering major. "It doesn't exactly fit into the culture." But the team's ignominious run has aroused the curious. Said another senior, Abbas Ebrahim: "There's the whole Cinderella thing about the streak." As he spoke, Swarthmore scored on a long touchdown pass. The student section erupted. Ebrahim and Dickson bumped chests...
...Tide turned. Leading 14 to 6 at half time, Swarthmore scored three touchdowns in the third quarter. With the score 42 to 6, coach Alvanos rested the starters, including Aleffi, for the first time in their careers. By then some Swat backers were waxing philosophical about the losing streak. Aleffi's father John, 52, has traveled from Clark, N.J., for every Swarthmore game in the past three years. "I'll tell you," he said, "this has been a tremendous test of character...
During the middle of the 1998 campaign, Harvard seemed to hit its stride, winning five contests in a row. But the streak ended when the Crimson fell to No. 6 Boston College and No. 4 Princeton in succession...