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Podkopaev's life was not, however, consumed by his academics. He loved sports, including skiing and rollerblading, which he picked up last fall. One friend said Podkopaev's trek every Saturday at 8 a.m. last winter from Child Hall to the Bright Hockey Center symbolized his determination and enthusiasm...
...Sukhavei has lived most of her 61 years in Zakharova, a village 29 miles outside Moscow. Like many in the Russian countryside, she has never seen a McDonald's (there are seven in Moscow), has yet to taste a Coke, watch cable television or own a telephone. She must trek miles to the nearest store for bread and milk. "There used to be order," she says. "Today there is no one to complain to in the village when something goes wrong or when we have questions. Of course I will vote for Zyuganov." Her monthly pension is 200,000 rubles...
While many of us were disappointed to learn of our banishment to the bog, the shared experience of living away from our classmates made us into a tight-knit group and forged many close friendships. Preparing our dogsleds for the morning trek over the Cambridge tundra was a great bonding experience. Furthermore, Garden Street did not lack the wonderful diversity of the Yard community. A conservative Filipino-American from the lovely garden state of "New Joisie," I found myself living with a wacky West Coast liberal from that mythical state of California--a place whose name can be loosely translated...
Although students who wished to forsake Sunday studying had a new means of procrastination, few chose to trek across the Charles to watch the Patriots play seven home games against their National Football League rivals...
LARGER THAN LIFE (July 19). Bill Murray, who looks great as the villain in Kingpin, here goes on a cross-country trek with an elephant. Murray's a terrific comic actor, but really, road movies are the pits unless it's the late '60s, the elephant is a mule, and Jack Nicholson is along for the ride...