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With the Crimson behind in both the score (8-6) and touches (55-52), the only way Harvard could complete the rally was for Papailias to win over Wellesley's number two player, Grace...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Spearwomen Nab Silver in Regionals | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...Captain Diana Edge, Emily Knowlton, and Grace Sheffield each shut out their opponents, 3-0, to finish off the Bulldogs...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: Racquetwomen Avenge Yale, 8-1 | 2/25/1987 | See Source »

...there other animals that the Masai consider to be close to God?" The visitor had decided, in vague tracery, that the gazelle's grace was associated in the Masai mind with God's grace, a profound though punning link, and that by eating of the flesh of the gazelle, the Masai thought to partake of the grace of God. A pagan chinging of the altar bells, a transubstantiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...hard to explain the attractions and preferences. It is possible that human feelings about wild animals reflect the complexities of sexual attractions. Certain animals are admired for their majestic aggressions, and others for softer qualities. The lion is a sleek piece of violence, the waterbuck a sweet piece of grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Given the public taste for upscale homicide, the case became known as the Main Line murders. This is not as elegant as it sounds. Echoes in the Darkness and Engaged to Murder have nothing to do with Grace Kelly's relatives or rowing on the Schuylkill, although some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives. So it is no surprise that Joseph Wambaugh, the former Los Angeles cop who writes well about the police (The Blue Knights, The Onion Field), attempts to establish a gothic mood. He associates the feeling with eastern Pennsylvania's brooding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pennsylvania Death Trip | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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