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...spot.PRIDDY TROPHYThe other championship competition of the weekend took place at the Priddy Trophy at Tufts, where Harvard’s freshman competed in the NEISA Freshman Championship. While there was no nationals berth on the line, the Crimson’s finish—fourth place out of fifteen teams—helped the team gauge some of it’s young sailors’ growth this year.“We were happy with our finish, though we wish we could have been a little more consistent,” freshman skipper Andrew Flynn said.Flynn and crew...
...three people were shot dead here by the police a few days ago - the locals say that the price of every vegetable except carrots, which are grown locally, has shot up by 500% or more: lemons, for instance, two rupees apiece a couple of weeks ago, now sell for fifteen rupees. "We are already facing a problem," says Umesh Gupta, a teacher. "We get by because we help each other, and because shopkeepers give food on credit. But if the protests go on four or five days more, there will be nothing...
From page 14 of Viswanathan’s novel: “Priscilla was my age and lived two blocks away. For the first fifteen years of my life, those were the only qualifications I needed in a best friend. We had first bonded over our mutual fascination with the abacus in a playgroup for gifted kids. But that was before freshman year, when Priscilla’s glasses came off, and the first in a long string of boyfriends...
From page 14 of Viswanathan’s novel: “Priscilla was my age and lived two blocks away. For the first fifteen years of my life, those were the only qualifications I needed in a best friend. We had first bonded over our mutual fascination with the abacus in a playgroup for gifted kids. But that was before freshman year, when Priscilla’s glasses came off, and the first in a long string of boyfriends...
...cumbersomely titled “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” provides Future Great American Novelists’ jealous bitterness some vindication. “Opal Mehta” is, as my friend Leon Neyfakh ’07 wrote in Fifteen Minutes last month, “a fairy tale, more or less,” and a lot of its details are as unconvincing and unfelt as pre-Pixar Disney...