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...pressure surroundings, it seems, inspired many of the Crimson to bring their best. Sophomore Jessica Fronk and seniors Flavia Merrit and Shannon Flahive all took first in their events—winning the javelin, 100 meters, and long jump—while freshman pole vaulter Nico Weiler and sophomore hammer thrower Eric Clayman claimed the top spots for men’s events...
...named. "In the end, you tend to offer readers what's most likely to sell." So what's on offer this season? Hype is building for two debut novels, Stories to Take You to the Moon by Maëva Poupard, 16, and Prophecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor, 14. Cynics say their presence in the rentrée littéraire typefies the popular appeal of youth - a craze that's paying handsomely for 19-year-old Lolita Pille. Her novel, Hell - a self-obsessed, semi-autobiographical gaze into the drug-sodden and libertine demimonde of rich Parisian...
...five years. DIED. CAMILO JOSE CELA, 85, prolific, provocative author whose challenging prose won him the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature; in Madrid. One of Spain's greatest intellects of the 20th century, Cela gained entrance into the Royal Spanish Academy at 42 and was named marquess of Iria Flavia (his home village) by King Juan Carlos in 1996. DIED. GREGORIO FUENTES, 104, fishing-boat captain who inspired Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer prizewinning novel The Old Man and the Sea; in Cojimar, Cuba. Fuentes met Hemingway in 1928, and helmed the author's yacht Pilar for nearly three decades. Fuentes...
Deep in the Brazilian back country, circa 1910, two families engage in a vendetta. The Breves are poor and losing the fight. One of their sons (Rodrigo Santoro) runs from it, finds love with a traveling entertainer (Flavia Marco Antonio), but not without bleak consequences. This movie is more emotionally remote than Salles' fine Central Station. But it is starkly beautiful and says something potent to a world in which nations, like these families, engage in mindless blood feuds...
According to Flavia M. Colgan '99, few students take notes in lecture, providing a welcome respite from other classes...