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...going to find another set of checkpoints in the dark. This time I behave more maturely. My Schwab partners are Dan Hubbard and Rob Sinclaire, a service-enhancement senior manager. Our Presidio guide is Eddie Freyer, a longtime FBI agent and director of SWAT-team programs. We stride along enjoying the cool, moonlit night. Rob and I discuss our mutual fondness for Tony Hillerman's novels, even imagining we are helping Joe Leaphorn track a killer out there in the darkness. This time I focus and, encouraged by the goodwill of the other three, dare to suggest a shortcut, which...
...down the exact same path your father made. George didn't learn to channel his energy until middle age, and he didn't feel real comfortable until he went to Washington. He hated Washington, but it charged him up," says O'Neill. "Then, with the Rangers, he really hit stride. It took some hard times and big jobs to bring out the bigness...
...nice seeing seniors finally hit their stride," Schotte said. "Laura Coleman had a personal best at outdoor Heps, and Lee Shearer made finals in 400 after being frustrated by injury for two years. [Thrower] Caroline Johnston came second at Heps, so that's fantastic...
Walter Isaacson '74 talks in the slow voice of a long-time journalist who knows that reporters take notes slowly and think in quotations. And although most reporters themselves hate to be interviewed, Isaacson, the managing editor of Time Magazine, seems to take it in stride...
...Escapes ($399) seemed more promising. A flexible hinge on the bottom was supposed to let me fully extend my leg for a fast, natural stride. But the skates were downright painful. There was too much padding around the lower leg, and part of the skate dug into my inner ankle. I had another pal, Jillian, test them in her size, and her foot got so badly chafed that she had to wear Band-Aids the next day. "You couldn't give these to me for free," Jillian said, somewhat redundantly...