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...Even so, one bomb was set off near an Israeli outpost south of Sidon, wounding a soldier, and a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an Israeli truck on the highway. Reflecting the jittery atmosphere, an Israeli colonel in Sidon pointed at an open window and barked at a visitor: "Either put on a bulletproof vest or stay away from that window...
First he tries to woo the kid by walking him into the Indoor Track and Tennis Center (ITT) and showing him the track--a facility some call the fastest in the world. Sometimes that's all it takes. But sometimes the visitor asks the question Haggerty doesn't want to hear: where's the outdoor track? Haggerty usually just says "It's in the Stadium." Rarely does he bother to show off the run-down four-lane cinder circuit...
...Mayor provides the public with a different view of the city than do his would be successors. White, who in 1982 received large contributions from developers, emphasizes three major projects under construction, and the number of hotels recently finished or still under construction. To the visitor, the Hub is nothing if not a boom town...
...adventure in the big city," as Elliott puts it, has ended happily enough but not without a dark chapter. On top of Harvard's standard academic and social pressure, the visitor from the Midwest had to struggle with a mysterious illness that caused debilitating headaches and depression junior and senior years. His ultimately successful battle against the ailment, and in particular his self-diagnosis, only confirm the power of Bremen-style tenacity: "You just figure that there's got to be some way to beat that problem...
...gentle evenings talking about literature, philosophy and the new findings in medicine and science. They examined the delicacy of the bloom in more than a hundred small gardens and inhaled the subtle scents of the catalpa trees ("Almost everything grows that is put into the ground," marveled a Swiss visitor in 1701). They worked and studied prodigiously for their beliefs, a diligence that became the young nation's defining trait. Lawyer George Wythe, whose house on the green is a visual joy, started a student in Greek at dawn and by evening had taken him through Latin, mathematics, French...