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...know them very well,” co-captain Devon McLaughlin says.This feeling carried over to the fall, as the experienced upperclassmen have become mentors to the freshmen. “The upperclassmen have been great big sisters to this bunch,” Harvard coach Erik Farrar says.The six freshmen have constantly been able to seek advice from their eight veteran teammates regarding both the sport and college life in general.“The knowledge of the upperclassmen is so useful,” McCarthy remarks as her teammates adamantly concur.“Any problem you have...
...tight leash until the final whistle blew; Princeton held Harvard to its lowest point total since its two-goal performance versus Michigan in the season’s opening weekend.“[The Tigers] were effective in implementing their defensive plan,” Crimson coach Erik Farrar said.Harvard was outscored 3-1 in the first period and could not pull even, despite its efforts in the next three quarters. Zdrojewski and sophomore Patricia Smith each scored two for the Crimson, while Kennifer and freshman Laurel McCarthy rounded out Harvard’s scoring with a goal each. HARVARD...
...Crimson coach Erik Farrar’s team was shut out as Harvard lost 12-10. Despite the final outcome, the team looked impressive in the first half. The Crimson began a 6-0 run less than two minutes into the game. Zdrojewski scored two goals during this stretch. Farrar credited the first-half success to a “very effective defense” that was “active in transition.” NYAC opened the second half with five unanswered goals. Farrar claimed that the Harvard counterattack was not successful in the second half...
Last year's fiction winner, Denis Johnson's 624-page Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), for example, was a critical darling and Pulitzer finalist, that, like those first NBA winners, failed to top bestseller lists. And in 2001, Jonathan Franzen, winner of the fiction award for his 500-page work The Corrections, bristled at being chosen for Oprah's Book Club a month prior, inciting calls of elitism from other writers. But the foundation has recognized some household names in its past: Oprah Winfrey herself received a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1999, as did horror...
...poets--was published in the U.S. last year, it instantly became a cult hit among readers and practically a fetish object to critics. Bolao's other major novel, 2666, is even more massive and more bizarre. It is also a masterpiece, and its publication in English translation by Farrar, Straus & Giroux on Nov. 11 is the most electrifying literary event of the year. With 2666, Bolao's posthumous conquest of America is complete...