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Harvard started its comeback when sophomore Jon Peters decisioned his 142-pound opponent. 6-2. This was Peters first varsity match and, according to Lee. "he did surprisingly well...
HENRY JAMES, the celebrated literary expatriate of the 19th century, once described America as "a great unendowed, unfurnished, unentertained and unentertaining continent." Paris in the 1920s was mecca for a whole gallery of artistic emigres whom Gertrude Stein labeled the Lost Generation; Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Pound and Cummings led a luminous lot. Now there is a new kind of American expatriate abroad in the world, drawn from the whole spectrum of U.S. society. Collectively, they lack the glamour of their famous predecessors, and their personal motives are different: the expatriates of the 1920s left America looking for art and excitement, while...
Meyers agreed to this proposal and left the courthouse carrying the 15-pound flag and surrounded by four court officers. When asked why she agreed to march with the flag she said, "It's better than going to jail...
...each other whenever one of their children threatens to "go macrobiotic," for they have only the vaguest notion of what that means. Going organic poses another kind of problem, for that will mean that the Thanksgiving turkey must be imported from an organic farm for a dollar a pound. Even a formal wedding may nowadays be followed-to the dismay of hungry friends and relatives-with a feast of brown rice, nituke vegetables and Mu tea, ceremoniously prepared by the young bride herself...
Despite the refereeing, Bruno managed to take the second fall, pinning Gaeto to the mat after delivering one of his murderous death hugs. The match became a battle of the giants as Bruno took on Bepo, the 6'9", 390-pound Mongol. Aided by a few illicit power punches from Gaeto when the referee was distracted, which seemed to be most of the time, Bepo managed to do the impossible-he pinned Samartino and held him for the count. Fortunately, the ref wheeled around in time to see Gaeto sneaking out of the ring, and awarded the match to Bruno...