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...scene in the title story of his latest collection of short fiction, Every Move You Make (Chatto & Windus; 244 pages), something of a breakthrough. Here the writerly restraint-as book editor Jo conjoins with the ultimately unknowable Sydney house-builder Mitchell Maze-should be studied by every budding Mills & Boon author: "For a moment he entirely yielded, and she felt, in his sudden cry, and in the completeness afterwards with which he sank into her arms, that she had been allowed into a place that in every other circumstance he kept guarded, closed...
...start, albeit against doormats Fordham and Georgetown, with Norries Wilson at the helm. Against the Hoyas last Saturday, Hormann took care of the football, attempting 25 passes without a pick, as Columbia took a 20-0 lead in the third quarter in an eventual 23-20 win. An added boon, kicker Jon Rocholl connected twice from long distance, making 41- and 45-yard field goals...
...this is the truth, it’s a boon to all three varsity teams who use the MAC in the spring, as most of their schedules will have been completed by that point. Maybe certain rooms or courts may remain available, allowing athletic events...
...fall into the other 85 to 90 percent of Ivy undergrads. Legacy preference didn’t help me in the admissions process—but it’s been a boon for me ever since...
...what had been an uneventful election campaign, centering on unemployment and welfare. Polls had consistently shown a slight lead to the opposition alliance, but a survey taken partly after the scandal broke indicated that the SDP may now have a small lead. But the scandal may not be the boon to Persson it appears if it turns voters off. "Some people might think the whole election is nonsense and abstain from voting," says Professor Henrik Oscarsson, a political scientist from the University of Gothenburg. "The SDP will lose out if turnout...