Word: keefer
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...this point, you may be wondering why this novel is called Swimming with Jonah. At Queen's, Jane meets a second year student called Keefer. Keefer is "bony as a bird," a gaunt, nervous man with an uncontrollable stutter. Having flunked one of his first-year classes, Keefer is marked out by the teachers as a failure and tortured more than anyone else. His only solace is Johan, a partially tame shark he keeps in a sea-pen not far from his cabin. Schulman attempts to use Jonah as a sort a of underpinning for this section of the novel...
This is the greatest tragedy of Swimming with Jonah: in Keefer, Schulman creates a character at once interesting and real. He is the most arresting and human character in the book, but Schulman never allows him to develop fully, nor does she really explore Keefer's relationship with Jane. In the end she sacrifices him in a meaningless and predictable suicide in order to bring closure to the book and to propel Jane, a protagonist we can never like...
Matthew H. Keefer, an attorney with Peabody and Brown, the law firm representing Adams Realty Trust, said that expanded parking was necessary for the hotel to remain "economically viable." He also suggested a compromise in which only one house would be destroyed...
...Some of the calves produced have weighed so much at birth that they have had to be delivered through caesarean section. Scientists aren't sure what causes this phenomenon, but they know that ranchers wouldn't appreciate the expense of having to deliver some calves with surgery. Says Carol Keefer, an embryologist at American Breeders Service: "There is so much to learn about cattle...
1BDyan Dieda Pinceton 1B Barrie Wellener Pennsylvania 2B Jen Babnik Princeton 2B Jen Fong Yale SS Stacey Johansen Brown 3B Leslie Silverman Princeton OF Nicole Deshamais Harvard OF Kelly Keefer Pennsylvania OF Laurie Sparling Yale P Christy Trexler Brown C Shelby Marshall Brown DP Sue Calder Brown Player of the Year: Leslie Silverman Rookie of the Year: Dawn Kulp, P-Penn WOMEN'S TENNIS Singles: 1. Erika deLone Harvard 70 pts. 2. Alexis Boss Dartmouth 52 pts. 3. Clindy Kuragami Yale 38 pts. 4. Janette Kizer Columbia 28 pts. 5. Aila Winkler Princeton 24 pts. 6. Barrie Bernstein Penn...