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...searching for a reason for hope, in case we run out soon, consider the wee hours of last Thursday morning in the Bronx after baseball's most bitter rivalry had finally played itself out. The riot police were at the ready as partisans of each side descended in red and blue waves on the venerable Yankee Tavern to carouse or console. And against all odds, the spirit was genial. Defeated Yankee fans bought Red Sox fans a drink--no gloating, no fighting, no riots, just a moment to capture the memory before they moved on. Reported by Perry Bacon...
Harvard’s home of basketball, Lavietes Pavilion, was part of the act. Colleges across the country celebrated the beginning of a new day—the NCAA-mandated start date for the 2004-05 basketball season—by packing arenas full of fans in the wee hours...
...fact, so obviously harmless that I have been shaken awake while crossing back into Manhattan from Brooklyn in the wee morning hours only to be asked for the time, despite the presence of several other riders in my car. A seasoned late-night passenger, I thought that perhaps I had mastered the technique of making myself appear more imposing than I really am by curling up into a fetal position and pulling the hood of my jacket over my head, thereby hiding my lanky frame and boyish face while I slept. Yet beneath the heavy green fabric of my Abercrombie...
When I was but a wee first-year, my expectations for my career at (what I unpretentiously assumed to be) the best university in the world were sky-high. I believed I could take hard classes, volunteer in the afternoons, work ten hours a week and still party like the lively first-year I was (weekends only, of course). I also thought I could join the Undergraduate Council. Boy, was I wrong...
...forget to allow for time to take in the seals basking on the harbor's rocks and to visit Kildalton High Cross, built in A.D. 800. And be sure to sneak a small flask into your pocket and walk. Scotland is a spiritually beautiful country, and a wee drink makes it all the more...