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...commemorating the Aborigines, whose way of life was being inexorably destroyed by white farmers like him. No painter in Australia ever committed himself as wholeheartedly to recording the life of Aborigines as, say, American artist George Catlin did to that of Indians. But Glover clearly meant The Last Muster of the Aborigines at Risdon, 1836, to be a muted elegy: those black figures, dwarfed by the huge and almost artificially sinuous gum trees, were in fact about to be removed to an offshore island...
Dartmouth is in second place in the Ivy League standings and is nationally ranked despite having lost to Cornell last weekend. Harvard will have to muster a similar effort if it expects to walk away with a victory against the Big Green. HARVARD, 3-1 at Ohiri Field Harvard 3 0 - 3 Fairfield...
Huan Song arrived in a Chicago suburb two years ago unable to speak much English, but possessed of as much grit as a 14-year-old can muster. The child of divorced middle-class parents in China, she had been sent by her father to live with an aunt and uncle. "I could have had a comfortable life in China, but my father thought I'd have a better future and a more exciting life in the U.S. He made a great sacrifice to let me come here to have a good future...
...province, and anthill. Then there are the 100-page analyses, dissecting each feasible theme in Edith Wharton novels, and the usual incomprehensible, highly obscure science papers. For instance, the thesis entitled Single Voxel Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectral Editingmight have won a Hoopes Prize, but its title doesn't muster up visions of trashy reading on the beach...
...three straight possessions in the third quarter, the Crimson took the ball away, first forcing a fumble by Harris which was recovered by senior Artie Jones. Following Harvard's next possession, in which the offense could muster only a yard, the defense came through again. Junior linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski, who finished with a game-high 11 tackles, made an acrobatic interception off a tipped pass at Cornell's 28-yard line...