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Stone has brought a lot more to Harvard women's swim team than just her diving skills, however. She is charming, friendly and extremely popular on the squad. This year she was almost unanimously elected tri-captain along with two swimmers...
...almost entirely taken prisoner; the rest of the Iraqi force of about 12,000 men was fleeing. Said an Iranian captain afterward: "Some were so frightened that they threw themselves into the shaft and struck out for the Iraqi shore. I saw a few drown. They could not swim, and their comrades, desperate to save themselves, let them go down...
...world cannot stare too long at an abyss; the abyss stares back, or simply grows boring. We revert to our customary sins. We do our violent business as usual. Fish gotta swim. War is flourishing-between Iran and Iraq, between Israel and the P.L.O., in Cambodia and Afghanistan. Since the bomb fell on Hiroshima, mankind has fought roughly 125 wars (of one sort or another), including the longest one in U.S. history. But all of these collisions fell short of the nuclear. They thereby seemed weirdly permissible: as sins, venial, not mortal. They were not, after all, the utmost...
...take the narrow view that the test is all there is, and to walk into the test without any preparation (since to study the book without ever actually typing anything into the computer is like trying to swim without getting wet), is making a farce of the entire program and cheating the test-taker out of an educational experience...
...Coleman, senior partner at the Washington office of the Los Angeles firm O'Melveny & Myers, is well equipped for what he considers "a great opportunity." Born to a middle-class Philadelphia couple, he experienced school discrimination firsthand. "When I was in high school and went out for the swimming team," he recalls, "they abolished the team rather than let me swim...