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...country Wright sings about in prose is an ancient landscape crisscrossed by salty tides and cyclones, mining and mythology. A Waanyi woman born in the southern uplands of the Gulf country, near Cloncurry, Queensland, Wright has spent much of her life away from its fecund waterways, working in Aboriginal research and advocacy in Alice Springs and Melbourne, where she now lives. But in spirit she's still there?"It's clear," she says, "clear water, full of water lilies and turtles and fish." To read the magisterial Carpentaria (Giramondo; 519 pages) is to enter Wright's world. What's evoked...
...Trimble, the Crimson didn’t take long to pick up its first Ancient Eight win in more than 22 months this past weekend, erasing a year’s worth of struggles and bad memories in its Ivy opener...
...school power football was on display as the Crimson (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) used a physical rushing attack to pound the Brown Bears (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) into submission 38-21 before 8,456 fans at Brown Stadium on Saturday.But instead of the ancient “three yards and a cloud of dust” offense, senior running back Clifton Dawson turned his 181 yards at a 7.2 yard per carry clip, including 104 yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter.Harvard ran the ball 44 times for 261 yards while throwing on just 23 plays with...
...Taking the court for its first Ivy match since going winless in league play last year, the Harvard women’s volleyball team defeated travel partner Dartmouth, 3-1 (30-26, 25-30, 30-27, 30-27) Friday night at the Malkin Athletic Center, snapping a 14-match Ancient Eight losing streak. On a weekend where the other six Ivy squads continued to face non-league opponents, the Crimson (3-5, 1-0 Ivy) and the Big Green (3-4, 0-1 Ivy) squared off in a contest that carried great weight for both teams. Dartmouth, featuring just...
...school power football was on display as the Crimson (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) used a physical rushing attack to pound the Brown Bears (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) into submission 38-21 before 8,456 fans at Brown Stadium on Saturday.But instead of the ancient “three yards and a cloud of dust” offense, senior running back Clifton Dawson turned his 181 yards at a 7.2 yard per carry clip, including 104 yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter.Harvard ran the ball 44 times for 261 yards while throwing on just 23 plays with...