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...year, well above his career average of 48.0 percent entering this season, and trails only Zoller on the Ancient Eight leaderboard. His 1.71 blocks per game are the best in the league. The consecutive road wins spearheaded by Cusworth marked the first time Harvard has won two straight games away from home since Jan. 28 and Feb. 3, when it toppled Ivy rivals Brown and Columbia. —Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached at tjkirby@fas.harvard.edu...
...Fred Harris; Johnny and I were the entire press corps. We traveled in a camper. Fred often went barefoot, sang country music songs and, in the evenings, dispensed Jack Daniel's in a manner that can only be called liberal. One evening we pulled into a white Victorian farmhouse straight from central casting, surrounded by corn - close in, like a fence around the house and barn - corn as high as an elephant's eye, rustling delicately in a slight breeze. The sun was setting; you could smell the dark, chocolaty soil. Fred's aunt and uncle clambered...
...Even so, Gates's straight talk impressed Senate Democrats and Republicans. And it appeared to rattle the White House. Press Secretary Tony Snow insisted to reporters that Bush hadn't nominated a loose cannon. "If you want to try get a nuanced and full understanding of where Bob Gates stands on these issues with regard to the President and his policies and the definition of what it is to win in Iraq and what it takes, then I think you're going to find he agrees" with Bush, Snow labored to explain...
...Democrats' chief worry was whether Gates's straight talk would make a difference with Bush. The candor was welcome, Sen. Evan Bayh told the nominee, "but you are not the ultimate decision-maker." Gates's close friends have the same fear. "Bob could be pragmatic," one told TIME, "yet the ultimate decision-maker is not in the Pentagon. He's across the river in the White House. There's a very stubborn moral streak in George Bush." Bayh asked what made Gates assume Bush would take his advice. "Senator, because he asked me to take the job," Gates responded...
...think a 56 game hitting streak is impressive? Well the “Joe DiMaggio Award for Culinary Consistency” is awarded to the student who has eaten the exact same food for 74 straight meals. That peanut butter and banana sandwich he makes must be pretty damn good considering his shocking devotion to it. I have to assume that he has some medical condition that requires him to eat a peanut butter and banana sandwich every day, because I honestly cannot think of another scenario where you would actually choose to eat one of those over the dining...