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...offense also returns many players and features Marko Tuomainen--this "Flying Finn" is a proven 20-goal scorer. In addition Claude Morin, who was Kent State's leading scorer the last three years, has transferred to Clarkson and is eligible immediately...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: ECAC | 11/5/1994 | See Source »

...water, passengers remember hearing only the roar of the storm and faintly, above it, the human cries. "You really heard the screams of the women out in the sea," said Hannu Seppanen, a Finn. Only those lucky or strong enough to reach the rafts had a chance to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cruel Sea | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

...that score, the producers can probably relax about The Client. Of the boys of this summer, Mark Sway is the most interesting. He's a sort of updated Huck Finn. Mark is smart, self-reliant and deeply suspicious of grownups ) -- with good reason, as it turns out. Out in the woods, smoking cigarettes stolen from Mom, he encounters a man in the process of committing suicide. Trying (and failing) to prevent it -- the sequence is good and scary -- Mark learns where a certain very interesting body is buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Hollywood's Huck Finns | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...Harvard's rock music communityplan to pursue music after graduation. Fat Day,for instance, plans to tour the U.S. this summer.LeVine, who runs the Quad Sound Studio, says, "IfI don't get involved in the music industry thoughthe band, I will through recording." GeretyFinnian Moore '96 (known simply as Finn) hasalready played the professional circuit as leadsinger last year for Lolita, a successfulBoston-area band. However, He enjoys playing withhis current Harvard group, tentatively calledPushkings, more. "I never got to be friends with(the other members of Lolita) because they weremuch older than I, " he notes, adding, "I'mfinally playing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Incipient Roadkill | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...message is salvation through health food, and the medium is Millroy, a road-show magician. Part Jesus, part Prospero, part yogi, he alone would make this a novel to conjure with. But Theroux adds another delight, Jilly Farina, a plucky adolescent with an artless narrative voice that, like Huckleberry Finn's, grabs and holds the reader's attention from the first page: "I had walked from Gaga's in Marstons Mills to Mashpee, where Dada was living with Vera, his Wampanoag woman, and when I got there he was black-out drunk and she was gone. I looked at Dada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: High-Fiber Moralist | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

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