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...Greek landscape is not always so peaceable. Later in the novel, when the boys approach water, they are set upon by a cloud of stinging insects. Panagis reports: the main body of the swarm moved to block our way, and the air became so thick that the last rays of the sun could not penetrate it. It was as though the air had taken a visible body and was eager to show its pulse and its muscle, its twisting limbs at each point of severance, and its furious powers of regeneration....as its body blocked our view...
After more praying than plotting. Hawley (4 assists) took possession at the point, and while the sky didn't cloud over and the Charles didn't part, the Pioneer defense did, leaving Wright open for the pass and the easy score...
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...another cloud has appeared over the troubled nomination of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese as U.S. Attorney General: a tax-exempt Reagan Administration transition fund, headed by Meese in 1980-81, that refuses to reveal where its private donations came from and where much of its money went. The New York Times reported last week that the fund has even refused to open its books to a federal audit. The disclosure led Senate Judiciary Committee Member Ted Kennedy to ask Jacob Stein, the special prosecutor looking into allegations raised against Meese, to include the fund in his probe. A source close...
...second eight was even more impressive than its varsity counterpart, blowing away Navy by 11 seconds in spite of worsening water and wind. "This ominous cloud rolled over," said j.v. coxswain Simon Young...