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...coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. So forget pursuing happiness. Pin your hopes on work, on family, on learning, on knowing, on loving. Forget pursuing happiness, pursue these other things, and with luck happiness will come...
...first trial, Isles proved an effective tragedienne. Despite her little-girl-lost demeanor, she turned steely under cross-examination. Frustrated by Puccio's needling attempts to pin down her changing emotions about Von Bulow, she burst out to the bespectacled defense attorney, "Have you ever been in love? I doubt it." Puccio wryly replied, "Maybe I can tell my wife to answer that...
...wrestling team fell a fluke pin short of claiming the Ivy title, settling for a second-place finish. The matmen, who posted a 13-6 mark, sent three wrestlers to the NCAA Championships, Co-Captains Barry Bausano and Sean Wallace and freshman Jeff Clark...
...really a tomboy and she hung out with my older brothers. They all picked on me, and I always tattled on them to my father. They would hang me on the clothesline by my underpants. I was little, and they put me up there with clothespins. Or they'd pin me down on the ground and spit in my mouth. All brothers do that, don't they? I wasn't quiet at all. I remember always being told to shut up. Everywhere, at home, at school, I always got in trouble for talking out of turn in school...
...doesn't really matter who (or what) you pin the blame on because the Harvard softball team would probably rather just forget all about yesterday's contest at Stonehill College...