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...Tigers have hovered for years on the cusp of the conference elite, and this season should be no different. Senior netminder Roxanne Gaudiel gives Princeton one of the country's best between the pipes—she posted a .926 save percentage and a 1.88 goals against average a year ago—and the chance to win low-scoring games. Juniors Kim Pearce and Laura Watt lead the offense, which struggled at times last season, ranking 13th nationally, but it returns eight of its nine top scorers from a year...
...month before Election Day in 2003, longtime local pundit Robert Winters said the dark horse candidate didn’t “have a chance in hell.” But as early votes came in, fresh-faced “DeBerg” was on the cusp of a stunning upset.DeBergalis eventually fell behind after the subsequent ballot counts; Cambridge’s proportional representation system rewards candidates who gain “transfer” votes from other candidates, a setup that usually helps incumbents. The system has even gained the nickname “perpetual representation...
...great annual horse race that crowds marquees, backyards and pubs around Australia, the form and fortunes of one bay mare fueled a national conversation. Makybe Diva, the two-time Melbourne Cup winner who'd been passed over when she was offered for sale as a foal, was on the cusp of history and almost everyone wanted a front-row seat. Could the mare do it? Would it matter if she didn't? Would she even run? What might the television crews, peeping through the bushes surrounding her trainer Lee Freedman's coastal property, reveal about her training sessions? So fevered...
...Among the blessings of apartheid's fall is a new willingness among South African writers to experiment, get funky and abandon worthy subjects altogether. That seems to be what J.M. Coetzee is attempting in The Slow Man, published in September. Paul Rayment, a successful photographer, is on the cusp of retirement when he loses a leg in a bicycle accident. Depressed in the prison of his apartment, he falls for his immigrant Croatian nurse. The idyll is interrupted by the arrival on his doorstep of the title character from Coetzee's previous novel, Elizabeth Costello. An aging novelist of dwindling...
...temperamental determinism. Families are full of stories of the inexhaustible infant who grew up to be an entrepreneur, the phlegmatic child who never really showed much go. But if it's genes that run the show, what accounts for the Shipps, who didn't bestir themselves until the cusp of adulthood? And what, more tellingly, explains identical twins--precise genetic templates of each other who ought to be temperamentally identical but often exhibit profound differences in the octane of their ambition...