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...Giardi is running from the Yale defense all the time, problems crop up. But the line hasn't let that happen much, and it certainly shouldn't fall to the Bulldogs...
...William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, earned an M.A. degree in 1955. Her degree qualified her to teach English, which she did, first in Texas and then back at Howard; but her familiarity with Faulkner's work proved invaluable when she later began to write fiction. Incantatory Faulknerian cadences crop up in all her novels, including her first, The Bluest Eye (1970), as in a description of women "old enough to be irritable when and where they chose, tired enough to look forward to death, disinterested enough to accept the idea of pain while ignoring the presence of pain...
...privileged to work here," says carpenter steward Power. "And they are privileged to have us--the cream of the crop of construction workers...
Haggerty said a strong crop of freshmen runners are likely to turn some heads this year...
...hantaviruses carried in rat feces, a local columnist swore that the victims shared a common thread: the feds had sprayed a small marijuana patch near Farmington with herbicides but delayed chopping it down and burning it until the next day. When the Feds came back they found the crop harvested for presumably local consumption...