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When the Ivy League teams compete in conference games this weekend, all of them will be setting their sights on the first-place Crimson, which upset Dartmouth 48-43 on Saturday, thus giving themselves a two-game cushion atop the league standings...
...negative part out of the way, Harvard's pass coverage has been a problem all year. There have been holes in the zone, and the corners play too soft, giving up lots of passes in front of them with five or even 10 yards of cushion. There has also been a lot of bad luck, however...
This one goal cushion allowed Boston College to play a very conservative defensive strategy in the second half...
Scorsune restored the Crimson's two-goal cushion at 14:52 on a soft wrist shot similar to the second goal Jonas gave up against Vermont...
...Mara is compulsive, jealous, hyper-analytical and destructive. She "walks as if the floor is thin ice. She checks beneath the cushion of a chair before sitting; she counts the knives in the silverware drawer." Through Mara, Budnitz explicates mental illness and the rationality of murder. This is too ambitious for her plot and narrative, especially given Mara's stream-of-consciousness rants. Had the rest of the novel not been so richly descriptive, this technique might have been effective. Instead, each thought staggers, laden with a false sense of importance and significance...