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While all loose ends are tied up, the dramatic events of this winter leave a heavy residue on the lives of the characters. "Sometimes it is February all the time," Anna reflects in a late chapter...
...book opens as Richard is riding in a train to retrieve the body of his brother James who had just been killed in a hunting accident. "Perhaps the world was a wound..." the novel begins, and the despairing tone grows ever more hopeless from there. Later in the chapter, a grieving Richard sorts through James' belongings and discovers a letter that leads him to believe that his wife Sarah had an affair with James. Unable to confront his own shock, let alone Sarah, Richard becomes more and more detached from his family...
Darren Kilfara's column "Section 12: Chapter 11" (March 10) points out a serious but easily solved problem afflicting not just hockey but all Harvard sports: lack of fan support. There is no doubt that the fans--the "twelfth man"--are vital to a team's victory and overall success. Indeed, the Crimson icemen often play their toughest and most inspired hockey in Cornell's Lynah Rink, feeding off the intensity of the crowd and the atmosphere of the building, even when that crowd is rooting for the enemy. On the other hand, sparse attendance and collective apathy seem...
More importantly, Black and Gelman wrote the final chapter to a journey of friendship and leadership which began in Chapel Hill but developed and flourished in Cambridge...
When Lott became Senate majority leader last summer, he found a new model of pragmatism in a slim volume called First Among Equals, which included a chapter on Robert Taft, the Ohio Republican who led the Senate during the Truman Administration. Like Lott, Taft was a staunch conservative who forcefully stated his views and didn't compromise on matters of principle--but who also worked to achieve the best deal available. "You can't usually get 100% of what you want in politics," Lott says. "But if you can get 80%, or most of what you want, that's usually...