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...caused the baby to bleed out fast-which did not appear to happen-and the right hold on its hind legs would have broken them, making it impossible for him to trot back to the herd as he did. Buffalo hide is tough, and perhaps this baby was even tougher and scrappier than most-or perhaps the crocs and lions simply had their B-teams out that day. Whatever the answer, one of the best thing about the alternate-reality, user-driven world of the Web is the freedom it provides-in the absence of alternative evidence-to invent...
...decades. "The game is less attractive to beginners because the courses are too long and hard, take too much time and are too expensive," says Jones. A top-tier course designer like him earns about $1 million on a typical commission, so the decrease has made the business tougher...
...train for the Olympics, never again to fence wearing Crimson. Junior Carolyn Wright decided to go abroad. A battle with leukemia sidelined men’s co-captain foilist Sam Cross. Down two foilists and a saber fencer, Harvard set out to defend its title while taking on tougher competition. In the Ivy League, Penn was better, and so was Columbia. Nationally, the competition was as stiff as ever. At the NCAA Tournament, the Crimson faced the challenge of taking on 12-person teams with just 11 fencers—it was almost impossible for Harvard to take home...
...ECAC with St. Lawrence heading into the tournament.With the regular season over, Harvard entered the ECAC playoffs looking for its fourth consecutive conference championship.The Crimson easily dispatched the Bulldogs in the first round, sweeping Yale in two games.Harvard’s opponent in the semifinals proved much tougher. The Crimson was once again at the mercy of the all-too familiar Saints. Despite a late comeback attempt, Harvard fell to St. Lawrence, 4-3, ending its hopes of a four-peat.With the early ECAC exit lingering in its collective memory, the Crimson traveled to Wisconsin as determined as ever...
...this time, he says, he thinks the result could be different. "The country understands we have a series of choices now that, if we put them off any longer, will be much tougher to deal with, and we may not be able to deal with them at all," he says. "So I think there's going to be greater responsiveness to people who are actually saying what they think." It helps that Obama delivers his truth telling with a heavy dollop of optimism--a politically useful distinction from those truth tellers, like Tsongas, who came across as dour and depressing...