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...suddenly remembered that all those bodies I maneuvered past had feet, and all the female feet wore nail polish. No woman I saw in Mumbai was so poor that there wasn’t some disintegrating color on her toes, some trace of shimmer. Personal grooming, which had always struck me as a waste of time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar...
...line and the receivers downfield made it really easy. And with Matt Luft, chasing a guy for 50 yards while I just kind of cruised into the end zone. It was awesome. It was definitely a team touchdown.”After a three-and-out for Cornell, Harvard struck again, this time on a 4-yard run from junior Cheng Ho to cap off a six-play, 42-yard drive to make it 14-0. The Crimson rolled throughout the first half, as sophomore Levi Richards scored on a 21-yard pass from Pizzotti in the second quarter...
...snuck a close range shot in the bottom left corner. “Maggie [McVeigh] did a great job of pulling the goalie and the defender wide, so I was able to slip it behind the goalie,” McCoy said. Harvard added another tally when Keating struck again. On a penalty corner, McGillivray fired a shot, but the attempt was saved by a diving Labarge. The rebound rolled out in front of the net where Keating collected it and lifted it over the prostrate goalkeeper and into the net. “Chloe showed really nice poise...
...told me it's not the government's job to handle his health care," Cannon recalled, "and that really made sense to me, really struck home. But when you're working hard and paying taxes and still can't afford insurance - well, government helps with everything else, doesn...
...1980s. At the time, many in the Northeast feared that race-based crimes would ignite their cities. In 1986, Michael Griffith, a 23-year-old New York City immigrant from Trinidad, was targeted by a white mob when he ended up in the wrong part of Brooklyn. He was struck by a car and killed as he tried to flee his attackers. Subsequently, a then obscure Baptist minister named Al Sharpton led a march through Brooklyn, a march that itself nearly led to violence. A few months later, New York mayor Ed Koch wrote a New York Times...