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...point in the race, Harvard held a lead of almost a length. But a pack of challengers, led by Yale, surged ahead in the last stages of the contest...
...Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, who had replicated the voyage of Columbus, occasionally walked the length of the Widener Reading Room in leather-heeled riding boots...
...senior thesis, "The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee and Kant," extended to 388 pages and necessitated an introduction explaining its "inordinate length...
...Auto leasing. A leasing company may get a better rate than you can and pass it through. A lease may make sense if you are on a tight budget, because leasing companies can finagle the residual value and term length to reach the same payment you might have got last year. Careful: such a lease may cost more over the length of the lease. This is the brave new world of higher interest rates. It doesn't mean the good times are over, but the party is certainly winding down...
...plan of escape before they end up fried. This send-up of the classic Steve McQueen film, The Great Escape, features more cool animated effects from the England-based Aardman Animations, the Academy Award-winning team behind the popular "Wallace and Gromit" shorts; Chicken Run marks their first full-length claymation feature. With Disney releasing its summer kid fare Dinosaur a month earlier than the usual mid-June release date for its animated films, Chicken Run is expected to challenge Disney's hold on younger audiences...