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...said. ''Think hard. There is a way. You have a spoon.'' The next morning, when the guard called the prisoners to get up, I felt something sticky and wet on my hands. Turning to the quilt, I saw stains of blood mixed with pus. The handcuffs had already broken my skin and were cutting into my flesh. I shuddered with a real fear of losing the use of my hands. But I figured out how to eat. When the woman from the kitchen offered me the container with rice, I turned my back to the door, and she placed...
...with dried pus. When I succeeded in peeling the socks off with my numb and swollen fingers, I saw that my feet were also swollen to enormous size. Under each toe was a large blister. I could not take the socks completely off because some of the blisters had broken and the pus had dried, gluing the socks to my feet. I managed to stagger to the door and called the guard. ''May I see the doctor, please.'' ''What for?'' ''My wrists and feet are injured. I need some medicine and bandages.'' ''The doctor does not give treatment when...
...power-play score with less than four minutes remaining, but a boarding penalty quashed any late Rensselaer momentum, and Crimson senior Steve Mandes potted an empty-netter to seal the victory.HARVARD 5, UNION 2The Crimson took a 1-0 lead less than halfway through the first period, when a broken Union stick turned Harvard’s power play into a veritable 5-on-3. Junior Jon Pelle beat goaltender Justin Mrazek by the left post for the first of the Crimson’s three man-advantage tallies on the night.If Harvard can convert on its power-play chances...
...second-serve ace by Hayes was called out.Senior co-captains Scott Denenberg and Gideon Valkin lost, 8-6, at No. 2, while the newly formed duo of Clayton and Nguyen saved Harvard’s doubles teams from being swept by winning, 8-4, at No. 3 despite being broken three times.Harvard took three singles matches: No. 1 Clayton grinded out a 7-5, 7-5 win against 51st-ranked Chris Rinks, who forced Clayton to muster his first of two gutsy performances for the weekend.At No. 5, Nguyen squeaked through a 7-5, 6-4 win with greater ease...
...McCay's ingenuity splashed from content to form and back again. Each huge page could be broken up into six horizontal strips or five vertical ones (showing an elephant getting bigger and scarier as it approaches). The panels might be in wavy shapes, when Nemo, Flip and Imp land in Befuddle Hall and their bodies elasticize into funhouse-mirror images. Or there'd be a large round central image, like the one for Thanksgiving 1905, in which a giant turkey - a kind of poultry Godzilla - uproots Nemo's house with its beak. Thanksgiving two years later expanded upon the dinner...