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...disease called "the bug" mutates its teenage victims in creepy, disfiguring ways, giving one an extra mouth, and another a little tail. But rather than making his protagonists fall in love while battling freaks, Burns makes them deal with the alienation of getting infected. Drawn in a detailed, high-contrast black and white style where you can count every nascent hair on a teenage lip, Burns' images will have your skin crawling even as you marvel at their beauty. Masterfully using the medium's ability to carry both visual and literary metaphor, and mixing in the kicks...
...play your best game against a tough competitor,” Stone said. Dartmouth (5-5-0, 2-4-0) has proven to be just that. In the past three years, Harvard posted a 3-3 record against the Big Green—a mark that stands in stark contrast to the rest of those seasons. The Crimson has advanced to the championship game of the NCAA tournament in each of the past three campaigns. But Harvard does come into tonight’s game having beaten Dartmouth in their past two meetings. In their first contest last year, Nicole...
...really where we spend a lot of money,” said Carbone. A lot of hand shoveling is done, which takes time and physical labor, he said. The FMO also uses 35 pieces of equipment, divided about equally between street and sidewalk clearing. The City of Cambridge, by contrast, uses 60 pieces of snow clearing equipment, with 16 or 17 pieces clearing sidewalks while the rest clear the roads, according to John Nardone, assistant commissioner of DPW. Peterson acknowledged that the city had simpler tasks when it came to plowing snow. She said that plowing a straight road...
...Nazareth prior to his ministry. Jean Gerson, the chancellor of the University of Paris in the late 1300s, thought a 90-year-old Joseph ridiculous in light of the rigors of travel in Egypt and recalibrated his age at Jesus' birth to 36, the Aristotelian "prime of life." In contrast to earlier descriptions of a distant and alienated parent, Gerson portrayed (in a 2,957-line poem, among other vehicles) an adoring father to Jesus: "Joseph leads him," he wrote. "Joseph soothes him with kisses." Meanwhile, Bernardine of Siena, a powerhouse preacher whom Miesel describes as "the Billy Graham...
...eccentric - akin to saying that a piece of music is better than it sounds. Bob Simpson, a Buchanan predecessor, subscribed to the mantra drummed into boys in short pants: catches win matches. He ran fielding sessions with relish, driving the players until they could barely stand. Buchanan, by contrast, is known for doing his best work in front of a computer...