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...facts that might have come from these early lists. "Stonehenge is like the Alamo--it is not very impressive," one McWhirter may remark in passing. It is all but certain to begin a colloquy in which the brothers correct and interrupt each other, finish one another's sentences, and leap from one millennium to the next--all of it calmly, perfectly reasonably, in clipped accents, as though nothing else could possibly be expected. "Not very impressive? Well, how could it be? Built 1900 years before Christ, after...
...Mahal is non-stop energy. When he sings, his body is constantly in motion: his head bobs from side to side: his eyebrows leap up and down; his hips grind rhythmically; his foot stomps and his facial expressions never stop changing. If he's not accompanying himself with his Mississippi National steel-bodied acoustic guitar, then he'll play the piano or banjo or mandolin of kalimba or maracas or Spirit of '76 Fife. His raspy voice sometimes turns lyrics into a stammer reminiscent of Otis Redding. At other times, words are replaced altogether by suggestive mumbles or a bent...
Harvard superman Mel Embree soared seven feet in the high jump for the only Crimson victory. Embree topped a relatively weak field, but was still named one of the meet's outstanding performers because his leap established a new Heptagonals record...
...What else is new?" Embree flopped his way to yet another cage record as he went over the bar with a leap of 7 ft. 1/4 in. And triple jumper Ahmed Kayali scored the only other first for Harvard in the field, hop, skip and jumping 46 ft, to victory...
Embree's best jump came a week later in the Greater Bostons where his Fosbury Flop broke the University and meet records with a leap of 7 ft. 2 1/4 in. The jump surpassed his own Harvard mark of 7 ft. 1 in. set last December against Boston College, and the Briggs Cage mark of 7 ft. 1 1/2 in. set by Olympian John Thomas...