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...detective thriller about the mysterious death of a six-year-old Inuit boy. Unlikely too is the investigator, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her hunter-tracker mother and the well-appointed world of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Like Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California, Hoeg creates an unfamiliar but palpable world that steadily envelops the reader...
...even know if he was going to compete this year. Then the captain stepped in.“D. J., who was a friend of mine in high school, convinced me to play,” Isner explained.Isner played in the St. John’s Invitational and the MacDonald Cup this fall, and he has occasionally struggled with wildness.“You have to grind through the bad stretches,” he said. “I’ve also realized that it stresses a good short game.”After the Toski Invitational this...
...Harvard men’s golf team finished tied 14th at the Macdonald Cup this weekend in New Haven, Conn. The Crimson carried the same five golfers that played in the St. John’s Invitational two weeks ago. Captain D. J. Hynes and junior Tom Hegge were accompanied by the three freshmen, John Christensen, Michael Shore, and Josh Isner. Harvard shot a combined 610 in two rounds of play and finished tied with St. Thomas Aquinas. Rain postponed Saturday’s first round until Sunday morning, and players completed the second round in the afternoon. None...
...issues, is convinced that the approach works--even though companies seldom admit it. "There are a lot of good companies out there," he says. "They just have some things we call 'warts' that need to be removed." Aquinas is prepared to remove them, one by one. --By G. Jeffrey MacDonald...
...this is reality TV, the ripping off has commenced. Fox last week announced Skating with Celebrities, which one suspects will draw heavily from Hollywood's expatriate Canadian community. (Norm Macdonald, start lacing up!) Fox airs So You Think You Can Dance next month, and TLC is preparing Ballroom Bootcamp, both of which were scheduled before Dancing premiered...