Word: torch
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...most alarming vacancy will be in net, as Chen and Villa were the only two goaltenders on the Harvard roster last season. Those problems are no longer Benson's, however, as the torch of the Harvard water polo program has been officially passed on to Jim Floerchinger, the head man at Lehman College last season...
...Drew skipped the school-bus ride and first period. Mitch had commandeered his stepfather's gray van, which contained food, camouflage netting, ammunition, hunting knives and survival gear. They drove to Andrew's parents' home and, unable to force his father's steel gun vault with a hammer and torch, stole a .38-cal. derringer, a .38-cal. snub-nose and a .357 Magnum that had been left unsecured. Then they drove to Andrew's grandfather's home and broke in through a basement door, using a crowbar. They took four handguns and three rifles, including Doug Golden's favorite...
Vigilance on campus imbues us with a sense of mutual responsibility for the University community and society at large. The torch of activism must be kept burning from generation to generation. We are in a lull now, and hope that the classes of 2000 and 2001 soon become uneasy by the current quiet, which is no doubt only the calm before the storm...
There were no fireworks, no arrows arching toward the torch. Just children, scores of them, scattering like snowflakes, and the strangled cries of some costumed chanters. Innocent and esoteric by turn, the first Olympic opening ceremonies to have their very own 15th century landscape poster introduced the world to what might be seen as Japan's latest brand of high-tech traditionalism: a sumo wrestler and a schoolgirl walking hand in hand...
...kinks showed up: the Olympic torch kept flickering out, and the first "suspicious package" swooped down on by security forces turned out to be full of toilet-seat warmers. But the point of the Olympics is to make embarrassment irrelevant. "Clinton has a chotto scandaru [little scandal]," a taxi driver chuckled last week. "It's a pity. No one will be thinking of our Olympics." As the Games began, the athletes were proving him--triumphantly--wrong...