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This new journal, also of a voyage to the New World ("Mr. Heartbreak" is J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, author in 1782 of Letters from an American Farmer), is about two-fifths aqueous, which is just enough. Raban sets out from Liverpool in a giant container ship, discovers that the ocean is even larger -- good storm action here -- and then burrows for several weeks each in Manhattan, a small and sleepy Alabama burg called Guntersville and our last frontier, Seattle...
...nation...Awarded Player of the Year, All-Ivy, and All-American status by Intercollegiate Squash Association...Suffered one defeat to Sunhil Desai, brother of Harvard racquetwoman Vanya Desai, during regular season matches. His only other defeat was to reigning two-year United States Squash and Raquet Association champion, Hector Barrigan of Mexico. Their five-game, two-and-a-half hour match was unofficially recorded as the longest match in U.S.S.R.A. history...
...more important now because the deadline is approaching. It makes the exams look trivial," said Hector R. Rocha '94, who has a brother stationed in Saudi Arabia. "It puts it in perspective. These things are stupid compared to that...
...Hector I. Colon, 19, of 70 Bishop Allen Dr. in Cambridge, arrived at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) at 10:45 p.m. in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the right of his face, said Ruth Stokes, a clerical chargeperson...
Calderon, president of the Egleston Square Neighborhood Association, said Sunday after the meeting, "`We do want a full investigation and an independent autopsy on Hector [Morales...