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...hospital where his anonymous soldier father, tail gunner Garp, is slowly dying and his independent mother Jenny is working as a nurse, to his assassination on the mats of the Steering School, his Putney-like alma matter, and where he serves as wrestling coach. He is shot by an Ellen Jamesian as he tweets his whistle and boys grapple around...
...world according to Garp, we are obliged to remember everything." Or are forced to--like the Ellen Jamesians, bizarre creatures that flit through this often terrifying and macabre book. The Ellen Jamesians are women who have cut out their tongues in order to remember the case of Ellen James. Ellen James was an 11-year-old girl who was raped; her rapists then cut out her tongue to prevent her from describing them. What they of course forgot was that Ellen James could write. She wrote descriptions of her assailants, and they were caught. Later she comes to live with...
...captain and goalie Ellen Seidler concurred, saying, "Our defense was so good I could have stayed home reading a book, and it wouldn't have made a difference...
Junior striker Ellen Hart scored late in the second half to lift the Harvard's women's soccer team to a 2-1 win over Bowdoin on the Polar Bear's home field. The Crimson's record...
Finally, with 12 minutes left in the game, Ellen Hart took a perfect centering pass from St. Louis and jammed it into the near corner for Harvard's second goal--the eventual game-winner...