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...eight Harvard players to score on the afternoon. “Dean didn’t play last week so this was his first game, but he really stepped up,” Sapia said. “He shot the ball well and gave our offense a big lift.” The Crimson began the onslaught early. Gibbons scored his first goal, an unassisted effort, just five minutes into the action. Junior attackman Travis Burr followed suit six minutes later on his own unassisted goal. Moments after that, Gibbons found junior attackman Jesse Fehr for the last...
...Beyond the practicality of it, we’re striving for better inclusion,” he said. “When we lift out the letters, that inherently only gives you five categories to be in. You’re either...
...Colonial Woman at the Au Bon Pain,” Holder writes, “And Underneath / A bone-white bonnet / Lies the waves and crests / Of luxuriant / Beguiling / Purple Hair.” For once, Holder seems to have found an interesting figure, yet his poem fails to lift this unusual woman from the paper and into life. Though Holder pays a lot of attention to her physical appearance, he fails to describe her personality, which would be a much stronger focus. So much more can be said, yet his poems fall short.Luckily for Holder, his talent with words...
...plans for Peter's aerocycle is a do-it-yourself magazine called Impractical Craftsman--an inspired title for the age of armchair American ingenuity and, not incidentally, a nifty description of a fiction writer. On paper, a novel about hope, nostalgia, love, disillusionment, pataphysics and the science of lift might seem like a hopelessly overdetermined bucket of bolts, an aerodynamic impossibility. But Kraft's affectionately satirical, buoyant language makes Flying soar...
...gradually limbos underneath it. The trouble begins with "Magnificent," another catchy, thunderous love song out of the recent U2 playbook. At least it seems that way until the arrival of the portentous line "I was born to sing for you/ I didn't have a choice but to lift you up/ And sing whatever song you wanted me to." Delivered with an ambivalent growl by one of the most famous men in the world - one who got that way by being a singer of songs and lifter of souls - it suddenly sounds less like a love song and more like...