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...race opened with a 75-yard sprint before channeling into a narrow opening in the woods. Harvard was stuck on the edge of the starting pack, with 25 of the race's 28 teams to the left of the Crimson. The Harvard runners couldn't gain position over their opponents during the sprint and were near the back of the pack as the race entered the woods...
...what about the principles of Nader & Co.? Do they espouse democracy or just the imposition of their narrow agenda on the University? Using deceptive rhetoric about "openness" and "inclusion," speakers at Nader's rally seemed less like idealistic champions of educational democracy than partisan advocates of particular causes...
...author's mood at the end is dour; a character who seems to speak for him, a mortally wounded expert in chaos theory, crabs at modern science for its narrow, intrusive brilliance and its broad lack of common sense. Yes, yes, the reader agrees without much enthusiasm. Thinking all the while: if you really could clone a tyrannosaur, wouldn't it be worth it, just to hear the thing roar...
...gull flies, the distance is not great: 21 miles from Cape Gris- Nez in France to the famous white chalk cliffs of Dover on the English side. Yet down the centuries the narrow neck of water separating Britain and France has served as one of Europe's most enduring physical and psychological barriers. Only twice have armies crossed it to invade Britain: the Roman legions in 54 B.C. and the one led by William, Duke of Normandy, in 1066. Secure on their sceptered isle, Britons developed their own proud brand of insularity, summed up as "splendid isolation" during the palmy...
...Massachusetts Governor-elect William F. Weld '66, in his election night victory speech, after voters chose him to be the state's first Republican governor in two decades. Weld won by a narrow margin, 51 to 49 percent...