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...three times a year, the Harvard-Radcliffe croquet team throws together a practice session. After all, they do have a reputation to keep up; just a few years ago, they won the national collegiate championship...
...brain stem. He placed a wire under both lamina--the bony covering of the spinal cord. He took bone from Reeve's hip and squeezed it down to get a solid fit between the C1 and C2. Then he put in a titanium pin the shape of a tiny croquet wicket and fused the sublaminal wire with the first and second vertebrae. Finally, he drilled holes in Reeve's skull and passed the wires through to get a solid fusion...
Volleyball nets are set up by displaced Californians, little kids from the elementary school play soccer with Brad; and occasionally even a croquet course or an inning or two of cricket takes root. Adam walks by in his Wachusett T-shirt and yells up to my window to ask if I want to play tennis at three...
After the war, Homer started to paint women--not the nudes of classical European painting, but young working women. The MFA show has over 50 canvases devoted to women, in various scenes: at work, playing croquet, or simple portraits. In his "Morning Bell," a red-and-white clad woman walks to her factory job; in the background other women are doing farm chores. This shows the transition from America's agrarian past to the post-War industrial economy; Homer's eye is focused on the trends in the lives of average citizens...
Yesterday's women's lacrosse game against Dartmouth was worthy of a Lewis Carroll narrative. The No. 13 Crimson's 14-8 loss at Ohiri Field to No. 3 Dartmouth was as backward and out of character as any Mad Hatter's tea or croquet with the Queen of Hearts. Dartmouth 14 Harvard...