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...women, the results at the Eastern Championships were about the same. Alexia Cruz failed to qualify for the finals of the long jump, and freshman Ailey Penningroth also found that event to be her Achilles' heel in the pentathlon, fouling on her first two attempts and forcing her to jump conservatively on her last attempt...
Some of what Luis earns he sends back to Vera Cruz, Mexico, where his wife (her name is America) lives with their three sons. It's been five years since the itinerant Luis first slipped across the border. "I haven't been able to accomplish what I wanted to do here," he says wanly. "I wanted to get a steady job as a driver and bring my family here...
...perhaps the dour Harvard founders would have simply started UC Santa Cruz instead, because the Boston weather yesterday seemed more like the California school's traditional climate than the normal chilly New England rain...
Although PR was once a common form of candidate selection, according to Richard Riche, the national director of the Center for Voting Rights, its popularity has dwindled until Cambridge is now the only U.S. city to elect officials in a proportional race. (Santa Cruz, Calif. is said to use a similar system, but officials there were unable to confirm that...
...storyteller's ancient, changeless pattern develops, working as well in Denmark and Greenland as it did for Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California and for Martin Cruz Smith and the series that began with Gorky Park in Moscow. Smilla puts her nose in harm's way and gets it bloodied. Like Archer and like Smith's Russian cop Arkady Renko, she keeps on poking. She's in peril in a glossy casino near Copenhagen, on a powerful, mysteriously equipped icebreaker plowing north toward Greenland, on the floating metal atoll of a huge fueling dock, and finally...