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...tooth and claw. It is little things like shoe trees and water pitchers that keep a President anchored to the ground on which the rest of the people walk. They are the tiny nerve ends of judgment. If enough of them are dulled from nonuse, a President can slip into narcosis...
...goalkeeping, make like you thought it meant hockey then switch the topic to Jim Murray or Tony Esposito or something. If that doesn't work try bringing up Steve Kidder and how good he was for the Harvard soccer squad last year. Avoid talking about Ben Bryan. It might slip out that he has a 0.00 goals--against average in the Ivy League. Or that he has allowed only two goals in five games. Or that he has made 55 saves this season, 24 of which came against UConn...
Writing a post-mortem analysis of your home football team is never much fun. Especially when your team let slip away a game it should have won. Even more so when the team it lost to is as innocuous as Rutgers. Losing to Yale or Dartmouth invokes a sense of frustration or anger. But Rutgers? More like embarrassment, particularly since a poor Princeton team tied Rutgers the week before...
Instead of turning west on the paved road to the ferry slip, Kennedy went east along the dirt road to Dike Bridge. Kennedy insisted that he thought he was headed for the ferry. At a speed of about 20 m.p.h., he came upon Dike Bridge, and the car crashed into the pond...
...affect my relations with my family and friends," says Devine. "I try to let it slip by, but it does get me down. It saps my energy and my emotions." With a sad, almost beaten look in his eyes, and deepening lines across his forehead, Devine, 49, seems to have aged ten years in the past four...