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...stands tended to side with Yale, not finding the “wall” over-the-top, even though it was hard to see what was written on the sheets from the stands. “I didn’t even recognize that the wall was strewn with vulgarity,” said Nikita Makarchev ’11. “I think it’s all part of a larger celebratory package, in a sense.” But to many of the spectators, the “wall” wasn?...
...less graceful moments as a seasoned runner, Erin K. Sprague ’05 stumbled up a kilometer-long glacier with a 17 percent incline. The mud-laden, rock-strewn, and icy terrain of Antarctica was most unforgiving...
...brisk trade in paint and window frames. Like countless places in China, this corner of central Sichuan province is undergoing a building boom. But this is no typical growth story. When I was here six months ago, bodies jutted from the pancaked floors of collapsed buildings and lined rubble-strewn streets. Tens of thousands of homeless crowded into sports stadiums, and millions more slept in tents. The highway was riven with cracks, and smashed vehicles crowded the shoulders. Grim-faced survivors trudged past on foot. The surface of the Zipingba Reservoir was covered with a brackish film from the tons...
...trade in paint and window frames. Like countless other places in China, this corner of central Sichuan province is undergoing a building boom. But this is no typical growth story. When I was here six months ago, bodies jutted from the pancaked floors of collapsed buildings and lined rubble-strewn streets. Tens of thousands of homeless crowded into sports stadiums, and millions more slept in tents. The surface of the Zipingba Reservoir was covered with a brackish film from the tons of boulders and soil loosed into...
...There will be no apprehension about potential injuries tomorrow, no looking ahead towards the next, more important opponent. There will only be a single, 60-minute football game which will end with hopes and dreams strewn alongside blood and sweat, and the satisfaction that, win or lose, each team brought everything it had left out on to the field and took nothing back with it into the locker room...