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Freshman Michael Stanton went on to the three-meter finals after finishing in 12th place during the qualifying round. He then placed in the 11th spot overall to conclude with 582.95 points. Stanton achieved the same standing in the one-meter dive, and in that event he summed up 572.65 points...
Stein's flippant and insensitive mention of saving every child in Haiti in an essay intended to be humorous ("You could save every child in Haiti, and you would still have to feed the parking meter") shows an incredible lack of good judgment and taste. I won't read him again. Carolyn Sonneborn Mayr, LINZ, AUSTRIA...
...order to deliver on this intimacy, Lerner has attempted to invent an entirely new form, rather than following the pre-existing structure of the sonnet or writing with the openness of free verse. He strictly regulates meter, punctuation, and stanza breaks, but not without constant and subtle variations, which permit his poems to avoid what Pound denounced as the “sequence of a metronome...
...meet was so large, in fact, that some Harvard competitors stood out despite finishing out of the top 10. Freshman Ablorde Ashigbi finished 13th in the weight throw while sophomore John Dingus broke his own school record in the 400-meter race with a time of 47.73—but finished one spot out of the finals...
Davis raced outside her normal distance, but managed a fourth-place finish in the 800-meter race with a time of 2:09.17. Hill—right at home at the 800 distance—won the same event...