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...book teems with amusing and appalling examples of mangled punctuation (starting with her title, which comes from a gag about a zoology entry on the panda), offers a lot of clear and helpful advice, and takes delightful detours into history. Example: her paean to Aldus Manutius the Elder, the 15th century Venetian printer who invented italics and first used the semicolon and whose babies, says Truss, she wishes she could have...
...fleet racing, one team from each school at the fleet—there were 18 this weekend—competes in each race, with the team getting a point for its place. If a team finishes 3rd, it gets three points. If it finishes 15th, it gets 15 points. Teams with the fewest cumulative point totals...
...case in 2003, despite home court advantage, the Crimson will not be the highest seed in Cambridge. That honor falls to Kentucky—No. 17 according to the national poll released Monday, seeded 15th in the bracket—as it did to Arizona last year...
After more impressive play left Chiampa alone in first place, her fortunes began to shift as she recorded consecutive bogeys on the 15th and 16th holes. But the lone senior on the team was unfazed by the slip-ups, as she sunk a birdie on the 17th hole before firing “the three-wood of her life” on the 18th, leaving the ball just 10 feet from...
Klein rebounded nicely from his opening round troubles and finished with a three-round score of 239—good for the 15th-best individual score—but it wasn’t enough to vault Harvard back into contention...