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...started playing again in the spring, and all summer long that's all I did," said Stauffer, a two-time finalist for the Missouri Athletic Conference Collegiate Player of the Year award. "I'm just thrilled to be back. This is the most fun I've had in a long time...
Altom, a member of the cross-country and tennisteams and a National Merit semi-finalist at OakRidge High School, graduated with highest honorsfrom the chemistry department of the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Gunesekera's first novel, Reef, became a Booker Prize finalist in 1994, thanks to its meticulous evocation of the marketing of paradise (symbolized by a coral reef in Sri Lanka). His new one, The Sandglass (The New Press; 288 pages; $21.95), sweeps that theme up into an even ampler examination of how independent Sri Lanka devolved into bloody anarchy and its people got scattered around the globe. Its protagonist, essentially, is twilight, and its brief sections, following the hours of the day ("Late Morning," "Quarter to Five," "Darkness"), tell us, unequivocally, that time is running...
Ware said he was a finalist for the permanent position but would not have been able to continue as master if he had been chosen...
Mosley can also boast of an impressive season, as he took his second trip to Nationals. He grappled in the 167-pound weight class with two-time national finalist Brandon Slay of Penn, and lost in one-point heartbreakers...