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Despite her aversion to all things Princetonian, Chase heads south to New Jersey for a weekend-long economics conference and—at the behest of her mentor, Princeton Afro-American Studies Department chair Earl Stokes—agrees to linger in town to guest-lecture in his undergraduate class Monday morning. Nikki’s long weekend quickly turns nightmarish after Stokes dies in a mysterious blaze. As she hunts for Stokes’ murderer, Nikki finds that blacks and whites in Princeton are related by blood ties formed through a slew of adulterous trysts...
...Greimann notched their second victory of the day in race six, but after Tulloch and Rodin hung a 10 on the scoreboard and the stubborn winds hinted they would linger throughout the day, both crews were swapped for taller, slightly heavier reserves at the expense of the familiarity that had served both teams so well in the first third of the regatta to avoid a costly capsize. Senior Clemmie Everett joined Tulloch for the day’s four remaining races, while senior Caroline Dixon served as Devlin’s crew for the seventh race...
...straight from Palm Sunday to Easter without passing Go." The omission extends far beyond the historical Protestant aversion to crucifixes featuring Jesus' body. Rather, says Jack Miles, author of Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, it dates back to the 18th century, when "Americans tended not to linger on the agony of Jesus. It was more 'friend of my soul, he walks with me and talks with me.'" That phenomenon, which has only accelerated, afflicts conservative Christianity as much as those in mainline churches, says American Jesus author Prothero. "If you asked Evangelicals in a Gallup poll...
...Maine matched up during the 2002-2003 season, when the Crimson traveled up to a “neutral” site game in Portland, Maine. Harvard lost that game 4-2, and the bitter memories of that loss, and even more the loss in the 2002 tournament, linger in the minds of Harvard’s players...
There is no sense of closure to be gained from the play’s ending, no clear moral or lesson to be found in its entirety. Yet the lines don’t seem connected to anything else, and the questions they raise, linger in the audience’s minds long enough for them to draw their own conclusions—which can be just as powerful as any message explicitly stated onstage...