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Metaphorically, that appears to be the fate of the Harvard cross-country team's opposition this past season. Four teams--Princeton, Penn, Dartmouth and Northeastern--outran the Crimson in meets earlier this year, but the Harriers caught up with all four in last Monday's IC4As and qualified Harvard for a slot in Monday's NCAA finals in Denton, Texas...
Denenberg has a couple of product defects: a nasal twang and a face that could stop a utility rate hike. "I don't use makeup," he sighs. "I discovered I looked worse wearing it." Still, Denenberg outran Walter Cronkite in a 1973 Pennsylvania poll on trustworthy public figures. Some colleagues suggest the scourge is using TV as a launching pad for another shot at public office. Denenberg admits, "I would like to have more resources...
...shell-and-pea games might have been merely an oversized gathering of spy stories. But there is far more seething below the surface of espionage and counterintelligence. According to British Journalist Anthony Cave Brown, the conflict was a looking-glass war whose cruel and brilliant espionage far outran the fabrications of le Carré and Eric Ambler...
Williams only outshot the Cliffe by a 12-9 margin, but they outran, out-passed, and generally just outdid the Cliffe stickhandlers until the second half when Maude Wood, Radcliffe's right link, chiseled through the Williams defense to score a one and lonely goal...
Running on a platform of prison reform and strict gun control, Buckley also outran Sullivan in liberal areas. Middlesex County includes all of Cambridge and Boston's northern and western suburbs...