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...stop the history tour here, in part because I've written about Kurtzman and EC comics at length on this site, in part because Andrew Arnold has written with a scholar's eloquence and a fan's passion on the later artists in the Masters of American Comics show...
...want to draw any conclusions right now, and obviously Bode is extremely important to this team, but we’re going to stay positive.”The Crimson, already struggling with an unstable starting lineup, cannot afford to lose its heavyweight standout for any length of time and now holds its collective breath with the MRI results pending.“It seems that every weekend we have some key guys missing,” Preston said. “This weekend we didn’t have [sophomore] Andrew Flanagan, and of course we lost Bode...
...when you take a punch like they gave us at the end of the first half, it can carry over when you don’t have a home crowd behind you.” Goffredo was kept in check all evening by Hughes, whose superior length, quickness, and strength helped limit Harvard’s second-leading scorer to just nine points on 3-of-10 shooting from the field overall and 1-of-6 from three-point range. During a crucial stretch late in the second half with Harvard making a last-ditch effort to cut into...
...colt galloped into the nation's hearts in May, with a stunning, six-and-a-half-length win in the Kentucky Derby that had the racing experts shouting Triple Crown. But two weeks later, his race toward the sports pantheon was abruptly halted, when he shattered his right hind leg at the start of the Preakness, inspiring a nationwide vigil. He was saved, but never out of danger: one day ready to sprint out of that Pennsylvania veterinary hospital that suddenly became a center of the sports world, the next day yet another setback. The emotional wave has finally crashed...
...voice belongs to Comrade Victor, 39, the political officer assigned to look after us. (Victor, like all N.P.A. fighters, uses a nom de guerre. The platoon's machine gunner is called Comrade Bren.) A handsome man dressed in shin-length shorts and orange flip-flops, Victor first apologizes for his poor English (he speaks it perfectly), then for our circuitous journey: a rebel operation had caused more "bad weather" to the south. "Our people were carrying out a punitive action," says Victor, meaning an assassination by an N.P.A. "sparrow unit" or death squad. The man killed was a farmer...