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Wolf refused to fire a pistol to start the race, and instead begun the "Stride for Seniors" competition with a bullhorn...
...Gates, Jr. announced that he would be leaving Duke University to head Harvard's Afro-Am Department, students there joked that he was "skipping town." At the time, Stanley E. Fish, the chair of Duke's English Department--in which Gates held a joint appointment--took the matter in stride. But it looks like "skipping town syndrome" might be contagious after...
...seem to take the women's presence in stride. "Once you work with them enough, they realize that you're a soldier like they are," says Lieut. Lynnel Bifora, 23, of Mohawk, N.Y., of the XVIII Airborne Corps. "I won't let them carry gear for me. I like to tell them that a bullet has no gender. Combat has no gender. You can kill the chivalry bit." She admits that it would be nice to put on a dress again, and clings to what femininity she can. "You can be tough and strong and still be a female...
Teammates cite that her happy-go-lucky attitude rubs off on the whole team. Griffin is rarely down on herself, taking things in stride instead...
...relieved," said Beat Graf, head of the local administration, after hearing the decision. In the town's central square, some men grumbled about the Diktat from Lausanne but otherwise took the ruling in stride. The women seemed pleased if a bit restrained; when night fell, however, a few quietly decorated the fountain in the all but deserted square with flowers...