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...most intense conditions I had sailed under in college,” said freshman skipper Genny Tulloch, who captured seventh in the ‘A’ division along with junior Lizz Lord...
...results. If Friend suffers by comparison to History, it is in its familiar eccentric aunts and faded gentry, who infest Southern literature like kudzu. But Harriet is an original. While grownups like Michael Chabon are moonlighting as kids' writers, Tartt has written a grownup book that captures the dark, Lord of the Flies side of childhood and classic children's literature. Harriet is a child, not a pint-size adult or supergirl. (She's Harriet, not Harriet the Spy.) She is smart but not wise, naive but not innocent, a stubborn moral absolutist who acts not out of Harry Potter...
...gloom of this year's I.U.C.N. Red List of Threatened Species emerges one point of light: the Bavarian pine vole. Previously declared to be extinct, this humble rodent is in fact alive and well and living - not in Bavaria as you'd expect, but in Northern Tyrol. (The Lord Howe Island stick insect, last seen on its Australian island home in 1920, is the only other species to have been rediscovered after being classified as extinct.) The pine vole hadn't been spotted since 1962 but two years ago, a group of the rodents popped up across the border...
...laughter,” he said. “When I graduated I think I had hair down around my shoulders and remember walking in the parade and watching the representatives of the Overseers and the Corporation in their funny outfits and just thinking, ‘Good Lord, what would ever lead anyone to dress up like that...
...Gradually, things changed. One crime lord took an avuncular interest in a young actress and began producing films with her in the lead. Soon the bhais were financing films, choosing actors, demanding distribution rights?mixing business with pleasure. But the relationship was often as symbiotic as it was predatory, because until last year, most banks would not finance Indian films. The money had to come from somewhere, even if the loan carried 50% interest?and the collateral was your knees...