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...Clever's throw of 16.85 meters in the 35-pound weight eclipsed his season's best by about two meters, and it was the third-best throw in the league this year. The event was won by Princeton's Joshua McCaughey, whose 20.59-meter toss broke a 21-year old school record and was the eighth-best throw in the nation this year...
...were pretty geared up for this meet, and both John and I were able to PR," Clever said. "[McCaughery] was the national high school record holder, so he was definitely really tough to beat...
...slickest websites, Justflowers.com 1-800-Flowers.com and FTD.com lured me in with crystal-clear photos and great selections. When it came time to think of a clever note, I clicked on a link for suggestions, ranging from "Love is the beauty of the soul" to "If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks." In less than 30 minutes per site, I picked my favorite flowers and placed my order...
...clever structure allows The Death of Vishnu (Norton; 295 pages; $24.95) to display a manageable cross-section of contemporary urban Indian life, including class and religious frictions. But Manil Suri, who grew up in Bombay and now teaches mathematics at the University of Maryland, has more to offer here than gentle social comedy. During the course of the novel, Vishnu's soul disentangles itself from his earthly remains and begins ascending the apartment house stairs. As this spirit looks back on the life just ending, on the mother who named him after a Hindu god, on the prostitute whom...
...visits their father's farm in Saskatchewan during the 1930s to study local plants and Dust Bowl weather patterns. Maurice Dove ought to fall for the beautiful and virtuous Lucinda, who runs the household in place of her deceased mother, but it is Norma Joyce, plain and engagingly clever, who snares his attention over succeeding decades, never as husband but eventually as father of her child...