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...also one of the best excuses for drinking beer and procrastinating about mid-terms, as the more than 50,000 spectators who usually line the idyllic banks of the Charles can attest. Veteran singles, the first of 18 races over the 5-kilometer course, kicks off at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, and the day's program will conclude with the championship eights...
...Americans in the Canadian game are often caught in the shuffle because of rules which require each team to carry only 14 imports on its roster. And in the meantime, anything can happen with the Patriots, as their peaks and valleys of the last few seasons attest...
Funeral, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears...
...whom he collaborated, and the sickly Stephen Crane became more than colleagues. But the absence of intimacy bothered Conrad far less than the lack of success. His letters to friends, editors and agents speak constantly of his ambition, his frustration and his need for additional advances. The letters also attest to Conrad's unbounded faith in his talent. "I too hope to find my place in the rear of my betters," Conrad wrote, echoing Rostand's Cyrano. "But still my place...
...from the 1960s, when Conservative Writer William F. Buckley Jr. championed the cause of a literarily gifted convicted killer, Edgar Smith, and helped set him at liberty to attempt murder again. Years later, Buckley acknowledged in an article how easily conned and naive he had been. Mailer, whose writings attest to his fascination with outlaws, has made only one comment on the Abbott affair: "A tragic situation all around...