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...afternoon in the middle of the Games last year, a taxi driver was asked to take a first-time visitor to one of Sarajevo's historical sites. He drove around the city and the hillsides above for more than three enthusiastic hours, then took her to his home for thick, black coffee with his family. On returning to the press village, he refused payment. At the end of a visit this year, another taxi pulled up to the modern Butmir Airport entrance, where the fare was paid. Gratefully a tip was offered, but the driver declined...
Before the farms there was the tall grass, and before that the boundless wind and whipsawing climates, and before that mile-thick blankets of ice. "A prairie never rests for long, nor does it permit anything else to rest," wrote John Madson in his book Where the Sky Began, an eloquent evocation of the changing heartland and its people. "Those first Europeans had no basis for even imagining wild fields through which a horseman might ride westward for a month or more." The land enlarged their spirits and made them prosper...
...white Jewish Texas farmer and his black wife. In less than a month he had created several new obstacles to his popularity in the department: a firm order forbidding the unnecessary use of force, followed by a volley of other new regulations that now fill a 3-in.- thick handbook...
Coach Dave Fish decided to go with his full lineup, anticipating that Tufts would give Harvard a good fight. "Tufts is quite good." Fish said. "We want to start playing the whole lineup as we come to the thick part of the season...
...thick part" which Fish referred to begins with this weekend's greuling road trip in which the team plays' three matches in two days. The racquetmen will face Navy on Friday and then travel to Philadelphia, where they will face Franklin and Marshall on Saturday morning and Pennsylvania in the afternoon...