Word: captain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophomore Tiger Graeme Rein took a pass from senior captain Chad Adams at 75:08 and unleashed a laser shot from 30 yards out that flew past sophomore Harvard goalkeeper Mike Meagher and gave Princeton the lead it needed...
...captain Jessica Larson and senior defenseman Gina Foster came up big in the backfield, holding the Tigers...
...captain Linda Jellison had an impressive day with 12 kills and five digs, and finished with a .357 hitting percentage...
...school would much rather prevent a disaster than clean up after one--which means that a child who so much as murmurs a threat toward himself or a teacher or another student is immediately under the microscope. But still the tempests come. "Drinking is the biggest problem," says police captain Doug Jacobs, class of '59, "and the parents that allow it." A child from a prominent family has a beer-and-booze party in the backyard while Mom and Dad are not home. There is the boy who dived into drugs and death threats and knives last year after...
...follow this spirited skeptic as she looks at lightning head on (in a lighthouse), escapes to sea on a whaling ship (dressed, in Shakespearean fashion, as a boy) and takes Captain Ahab (who has the "mien of a weathered god") to her bed. Naslund is helping us, of course, to see the all-male world of Moby Dick through more compassionate eyes, and its protagonist as he might be glimpsed through "pity's tears." Yet what is remarkable here is not the revisionism. Naslund, author of four much smaller works of fiction, actually matches the master, Melville...