Word: weekends
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...came as no surprise that my flight home for the weekend last Friday was the latest in the "Can Vasant Make The Plane?" saga. A phone call to Delta Airlines made sure of that. "Flight 1029 from Newark, New Jersey to Atlanta, Georgia," the agonizingly slow voice said, "has been cancelled." I called again and got a seat for an earlier flight. Good, I thought, no problems so far. Then, right before I was about to leave work, my Mom's voice appeared in my head, saying, "Call before you go to the airport!" Again I slowly, reluctantly dialed Delta...
...Harvard's most decorated athletes finished better than expected but still fell well short of earning a trip to the Olympic games at the track and field Olympic trials in Sacramento last weekend...
...fallen school records, the 100-meter run and the 4x100-meter relay, had belonged in part to another Trial competitor, Meredith Rainey-Valmon '90. An Atlanta Olympian in 1996, Rainey-Valmon will be attempting to make the team in the 800-meter run this weekend. She still holds the school records...
...Olympic berth on the Hungarian national team. A surprise result from the U.S. Olympic Trials meant that Gyorffy will be up against some familiar competition in Sydney. Texas's Erin Aldrich--the only athlete to beat Gyorffy at NCAA Outdoors this past season--managed to twice avert disaster this weekend and sneak onto the U.S. Olympic Team...
...worth remembering right about here, that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is not a Hollywood summer blockbuster, although its weekend grosses will probably be announced in a breathless press release. It is a book, a really long book, with no moving images, sound track or joysticks. Reading it or listening to someone else read it aloud requires a modicum of silence, the exact antithesis of all the bells and whistles and clarions that heralded its arrival...