Word: walden
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Understanding that he would be eliminated with one more loss, Turner won two straight-set matches on Friday, defeating Brown's Alex Walden 6-4, 6-4 and Marist's Michael Sawter, 6-4, 6-0. Turner carried his momentum to Saturday, winning two more matches while dropping a combined 10 games in four sets. He defeated Columbia's Pavel Jefferson, 6-3, 6-1, avenging an earlier loss this season. Turner's 6-2, 6-4 victory over Rutgers' Kevin Bielen proved he is currently on top of his game...
...should at least be able to do some good: donate five billion dollars to charity or spawn a couple of presidents. Maybe then our parents will actually be proud of us. If not, we can at least make our Boomer parents proud grandparents and stick a copy of Walden in our kids' lunchboxes...
...drop out of the Fordham race because of my legs, but they felt much better this weekend," Baker said yesterday after returning from a two-hour run to Walden Pond in Concord. "On Saturday I stayed with the pack at the beginning and then picked up speed to pass a couple of Brown runners and finish behind Nathan...
...invests in a broad group of third-party venture capital firms. These firms are located across the country, from Highland Capital Partners headquartered in Boston, to Crosspoint Venture Partners, of northern California, to Walden International Investment Group of San Francisco. These companies invest in firms focusing on a broad range of start-up companies, from the internet to communications to health care...
Near the beginning of Walden, Thoreau writes that "it would be some advantage to live in a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them." The irony, of course, is that now we would say even the most "civilized" mid-nineteenth-century American lived a life far more primitive than any imaginable today. No Coca-Cola (nor plastic bottle in which to hold it); no Gore-Tex jacket (nor zipper with which close it); no Chevy...