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...before the race. I received the best advice for running I ever heard: "You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard." I just wish people would run two miles as if they were running 100 miles, because one thing that you will always see in ultra-races that you will never see in normal marathons are smiles. People are relaxed and enjoying the moment...
...union, the hope is that nothing is really ever locked in stone since agreements can always be renegotiated. Says Conway: "The important thing for the union is they live to fight another...
...reach the quarterfinals. Caputo eventually took an eighth-place finish to earn All-American honors for the second time.“I was very, very pleased with myself,” Caputo said. “Making it to nationals and competing well is not a given thing. No matter where you’re ranked, a lot of guys get upset, so to go and win All-American, I couldn’t have asked for a better ending to the season.”Although Caputo finished seventh as a sophomore, Harvard coach Jay Weiss saw Caputo?...
...have a foggy memory sometimes about popular culture. ‘How High,’ one of the greatest movies of our time, was shot in New Haven, right? Oh, what’s that you say? It takes place at Harvard? Harvard is the most kickass thing ever as a result. So, you know how much our administration stinks and is totally unresponsive to the student voice—from the Corporation to all the bureaucratic bologna in between? Well, yeah, well that’s the same at Yale and any other elite university...so, yeah, that?...
...with you at ____ (Class Day, your anti-drug program graduation, my hearing). Presumably your selection committee knew what they were getting themselves into when they selected _____ (a real American hero, an adult, a white-collar criminal). I’m here to share with you today some of the things I learned in ____ (my time at Harvard, my post-fifth grade life, prison). Many of those lessons came while I was _____ (at The Crimson, in sixth grade, in solitary confinement). In the grand tradition of speakers before me, I’d like to send you out into the world...