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...light crew's win-its 13th consecutive against intercollegiate competition-gave Harvard the Haines Cup title for the 13th straight year...
Long-winded as well as angry in tone, the report occasionally strikes out with rhetorical inaccuracy-as when it seems to put most of the blame on the FDA for the fact that the American infant-mortality rate, once fifth lowest in the world, is now 13th lowest. But many of its points are soundly made. While placing a large share of the blame on practices of the food industry, Nader's Raiders hit hard at the FDA for frittering away its limited resources on relatively harmless quacks while letting major corporations go virtually unregulated. They note that...
Playing 18 holes in the morning before his matches, Harvard's Skip Kistner was too good for his opponents. He walked off with two wins by the 13th hole...
...everyone that can get a parking ticket while they are talking to the chief of police. But, of course, I did, and in case you're superstitions, it was Friday the 13th...
...Francis of Assisi, the 13th century saint-for-all-seasons who founded the Order of Friars Minor, loved the term brother so much that he used it to address all God's creatures. Indeed, his ragged band of followers was at the beginning composed almost entirely of brothers-members of a religious order who are not ordained-and Francis himself chose never to become a priest. Yet for centuries the Franciscans have been governed only by priests, with brothers relegated to minor positions...