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...television, you can see the sweat, but in real life the Marathon is a truly messy business. Out of respect, the television does not show the Red Cross "Disaster Services" medical tents, each of which fill with a platoon of heat exhaustion victims. A man wearing a doctor's glove stands at each aid station with a handful of vaseline. Runners grab a blob and smear it around their groin and between the legs to prevent chafing...

Author: By William H. Bachman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALK-DO NOT RUN | 4/24/1992 | See Source »

...experience the awe-inspiring spectacleof live dog-racing. Come on, most of Wonderland'sclientele already watches the races on closed-circuit TV. There just isn't that much toexperience. As Vader wrote, "there are no manesand tail blowing, no bright silks, no sweat nobloodlines going back centuries, no Old Kentuckyhome," Wonderland runs ads featuring abasset houndnamed Buck-O with a rocket strapped to his backbeneath the legend, "The Basic Idea BehindGreyhound Racing." They're supposed to betongue-in-cheek. But that is the basic idea behindgreyhound racing. It's too damn fast. by the timeyou've figured out which...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Softball Team: Blazing Its Own Trail | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

...fifth game saw more cramping of muscles and more endless rallies, but while the last drop of sweat hit the court, Fraiberg emerged victorious. The score of the deciding game read 15-12 in the Harvard senior's favor...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fraibergs Capture Intercollegiate Squash Titles | 3/3/1992 | See Source »

...prime minister gained international attention earlier this month when he criticized Americans, saying that they "lack a work ethic" and that they were losing the drive "to live by the sweat of their brow...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Japan's Leader Weighs Offer To Speak Here | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

THERE'S ONLY SO much canned fish a person can take. I used to wake up in a cold sweat with visions of Charlie, the albacore tuna, waving to me with that stupid smile on his face. "Sorry Charlie, we don't need tuna with good taste, just tuna tastes good!" would echo in my head throughout the night. Instead of counting sheep when I couldn't fall asleep, I could only see dolphins, leaping over the waves, in the most politically correct of all symbols that, situated just to the left of Charlie on the Star Kist can, reads...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Hallelujah, He's for Real ! | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

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