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...They killed the pigs. Let them clean the city...
...Let us now speak ill of two very good writers: Nick Hornby and Lorrie Moore. Hornby's new book, Juliet, Naked (Riverhead; 416 pages), is an example of what you might call iPod lit--Arthur Phillips' The Song Is You would be another--novels that meditate on the paradoxical mixture of intimacy and estrangement that arises from listening to digitally recorded music, or really from any human interaction mediated by the Internet. In the case of Juliet, Naked, the music is by Tucker Crowe, a legendary (fictional) singer-songwriter who was last heard from in 1986 but who still...
...clerical assistant, work full time. Chris' daughter Samantha, 18, and the couple's daughter Abigail, 6, are busy all day with school and extracurricular activities, not to mention the church functions that the family attends three times a week. Their collective schedule left little time for food-shopping, let alone preparing meals at home. "By the time we came home, it would be late, and we knew that eating late wasn't healthy," says Chris. "So [dinners were] fast food because there wasn't time to cook a meal...
...Crimson was quickly put on its toes Friday when Dartmouth setter Kendall Houston opened the first set with two aces—the home team put up six throughout the night. But Harvard refused to let its opponent build an early advantage and the two teams rallied back-and-forth until the Big Green jumped ahead at 14-9 and forced the Crimson to take its first timeout. It was not enough to get the team on track, and Dartmouth scored 10 consecutive points before closing out the game and establishing a 1-0 lead...
...Crimson defense did not let up. With Lehigh on the Harvard 19-yard line, the Crimson stopped receiver Jake Drwal just inches short of a first down on an attempted fourth-down conversion. And though the Harvard offense wasn’t making much noise, Zych and Takamura ended Lehigh’s next two drives with interceptions...