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...signs of cooling. He will start Game 1 of tomorrow’s Ivy home-opening doubleheader against Penn (7-19, 2-6 Ivy). Sophomore Matt Vance, the team’s de facto leadoff man—his ten steals lead the league—will be conspicuously absent from the outfield. Vance stayed home yesterday to visit with doctors about what appeared to be a torn labrum, the principal muscle of the throwing shoulder. Until Sunday’s game against Cornell, he had been playing through pain in centerfield. Vance denied that he would opt for surgery...
...preliminary matter, direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority government is already barred by law, absent a rarely-used presidential waiver that such assistance is in America’s national security interests. Such a waiver will certainly not be granted as long as Hamas controls the Palestinian Legislative Council...
...Many residents said that Hurricane Katrina changed any goodwill Nagin had won for efforts to kill corruption in the city. Nagin was conspicuously absent from the public eye right when New Orleanians needed reassurance after the storm...
...night-vision goggles. In The Perfect Storm Junger had a great story to work with; in A Death in Belmont there is no central thread. He's navigating a maze of shadows, and you can see all the more clearly what an enormously skillful prose artist he is. Absent a pulse-pounding narrative, Junger entrances the reader by picking out small details--like the score of the kickball game being played in front of Goldberg's house when she died--that give the events he's describing an enthralling vividness and resonance and clarity...
...apparent joylessness that went into Show Your Bones is blessedly absent from the final product. Instead, the album sounds like a tight band making a small but confident pop move. The chorus of the first single, Gold Lion, has the catchy, repetitive meaninglessness of all good radio hits but is defined by the power of O's voice hooting in delight as it fades out. O's lyrics are intentionally vague--"Lyrics age poorly, especially if they're specific," she says--but she sings like an actress, with elastic trills and meaningful pauses, so there's a story...