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...result from inanimate obstacles as well. The Eliot Bridge is a perennial site for accidents, because coxes refuse to yield to each other and have trouble steering in the melee of boats. "Inexperienced coxes and inexperienced boats don't always make the turn, and they either lose time or crack up," Olrich says...
Elsewhere in the record books, Santiago needs 656 yards to crack the number five position on the all-time career total offense list...
...idealistic passion--in a tatty French hotel room with an exhausted soldier-hero--is the memory that sustains and destroys her life. Progressive change seemed possible then, but in domestic harness in the stagnant '50s, she can only rearrange the furniture. When the mood comes on her she can crack the crockery over her considerate husband's head to provoke an explosion of savage vitality. With this "psychiatric cabaret," Susan shows she wants everything on her own terms. Plenty is not enough...
...issue boils down to enforcement. Students around the University have been reluctant to talk about the change in the alcohol policy because if they say they are going to flaunt the law, then it might push the University to crack down on them...
What a dilemma. The more students talk about drinking, the more they are asking the University and community groups to crack down. Even though, of course, about 98 percent of Harvard students don't drive at Harvard--only 97 students registered cars last year, according to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Even though, by making the campus restrictive, students will be encouraged to wander elsewhere in search of alcohol and perhaps get into more trouble...