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While Princeton's ball-control offense attempted to lull the Crimson defense to sleep, the Harvard long-stickers played like they were wired on No-Doz. Except for a brief second-period lapse, Harvard's defense was ruthless in winning ground balls stuck in the thick Ohiri...
They grow up to 2 in. long and 1 in. thick. Their piercing mandibles can inflict painful bites. They have an insatiable appetite for bushes, bark, gardens and crops. And now, in the worst outbreak since the 1930s, a huge army ; of these mini-monsters is hatching in a 700,000-acre swath of northern Nevada and poised for an expected May Day assault on anything chewable in its path...
...education, but an enduring adult fascination with undergraduate pedigrees remains acute in the fields I know well, such as journalism and politics, where it is still possible to achieve success through talent, luck and a good B.A. degree. For example, at the Washington Post in the early 1980s, so thick were the references to bright college days in Cambridge, Mass., that I sometimes felt I was working at the Harvard Crimson alumni association. Peggy Noonan in her best-selling White House memoir, What I Saw at the Revolution, loudly complains that her colleagues in the Reagan Administration "were always asking...
When U.S. Air Force flyers dumped millions of gallons of an oily herbicide called Agent Orange over the thick jungle canopy of war-ravaged Viet Nam, they unwittingly started a battle that would rage long after the last American helicopter left Saigon. Over the past 13 years, some 35,000 Viet Nam veterans have vigorously pressed Washington to compensate them for injuries and illnesses that they believe were caused by exposure to Agent Orange. The herbicide contains dioxin, a potent poison that causes cancer in laboratory animals. But Government officials have delayed paying most claims, pointing to a lack...
...lost a lot of weight lately," she said in her thick accent. "You are getting too thin. I know girls like to diet, but you should not. You look unhealthy. There is no fat on your face," she said, stroking...