Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Having already won a bronze medal at the Pan American games this summer, freshman Dan Shevchik was expected to contribute immediately to the Harvard men's swimming team...
Though the collegiate swim season has come to a close, the Olympics are not far away. Ten Crimson swimmers have qualified for the Olympic Trials. For them, the hard work and competition will continue throughout the summer...
...driving permits: If you get pulled over at night, turn on the interior light. Put your hands on the steering wheel. Don't make any sudden moves. "My younger son's initial response was, 'Why do I have to do that?'" says Dais. "But now he understands." Last summer Landon, then 17, was stopped while driving his father's Triumph sports car. The cops said it was a routine check, asked a few questions...
...canceled spring training? It might be going on somewhere, but to read the papers or watch the sportscasts, you wouldn't know it. Just a decade ago, it was almost obligatory for a writer to pad down in March to some funky Florida field and wax poetic about the summer game. Today you're lucky if you can find a single line of baseball coverage. Spring once meant the crack of the bat, the smell of the grass. Today it means college hoops, March Madness...
When I first met H. Rap Brown, during the long, hot summer of 1967, the chairman of the wildly misnamed Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a hotheaded black revolutionary. As a cub reporter for the Washington Post, I covered a speech he delivered in Cambridge, Md., exhorting a crowd of angry young blacks: "If America don't come around, we're gonna burn America down!" His fiery rhetoric notwithstanding, he was less responsible for the arson and sniping that erupted later that night than was the jittery white cop who angered the crowd by firing a shotgun, slightly wounding...