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...fell in for a double. Lentz followed with a hard-hit ball to second that passed the lunge of Big Red second baseman Seth Gordon. It was a rough stretch for Gordon, who struck out to the end the top half of the seventh, failing to drive in Finch from second. Farkes raced home from second to tie the game...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Recovers, Salvages Home Split | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

...extended clan of more than twenty. Four men were chosen to stay behind to protect the building and watch over the family's elderly blind matriarch, too ill to move. The doors and windows are covered with plastic taped to the frames. A small yellow bird, like a finch, known locally as a "taral hob" or the bird of love, is kept in a cage just outside. "When it dies we know we might too," says one of the men, Ali Rauf Noori. "There are no guarantees here in Chamchamal, that's why everyone has evacuated." These men sent their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War and Kurdistan | 3/20/2003 | See Source »

...Trials of Finch,” an excerpt published in the December 23, 2002 issue of The New Yorker from her second novel, The Autograph Man, she slips in a description of a man’s confrontation with the prospect of a brain trumor...

Author: By Lily X. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Zadie Smith Tells of Success, Story-writing | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...Kandi Finch, the event’s emergency services coach since 1977, sees a different side of the regatta...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fans Glide Through Town | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...will never know, and he will never know, whether Hap's death was willful or accidental. Will, of course, concocts a plausible story, blaming the lurking but at that point unidentifiable Finch for the second crime. He also plants exculpatory evidence to support this tale. Meantime, the creepy Finch tries to lure him into a deal: Finch won't talk about what he saw if Will joins him in pinning the original murder on an innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Sleepless in Alaska | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

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