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After all, Harvard has won seven consecutive games--the team hopes to leave this weekend's twin double-headers against Dartmouth with a division title and a chance at its first Ivy League crown since 1985. Yet the team's student fan base remains a consistent twelve...
...turns out, public impressions of what is the tallest or the largest or the oldest are not decided by precise measurements. Once the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Sears Tower were built, for instance, I thought that those of us who pride ourselves on our accuracy should begin referring to the Empire State Building as "the third tallest building in the Greater New York area." Nobody else seemed to think that...
...sense this because Blue, a struggling songwriter, is so persevering; he has spent a good chunk of his career composing and producing a musical version of the Odyssey. The title: Odyssey! It's a fitting project. Blue has a free-spirited twin brother named Red ("the most fugitive color") and in essence has spent his romantic life trying to go home, trying to recapture the incomparable bond of his youth. The question that riddles him: "Are twins, or lovers, or while we're at it since I don't know how they're matched up either, figure skating partners...
...Shop. He also won in 1945 at the advanced age of 37 and told a reporter, "Life merely begins at 40, and I have three years to go." Kelley no longer runs in the marathon, but runners can still pass him on Heartbreak Hill in Newton, where there are twin statues of Kelley--as he ran in his first victory and as he ran in his 61st Boston...
...protection. Prostitutes in danger turn up on both shows, looking not at all as they do on the streets of the grittiest precincts in urban America, or even as they do on NYPD Blue. Waifish and fresh-faced, they resemble well-educated publishing assistants saving up for a smart twin...