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...victory was especially sweet given Friday night's narrow loss to Yale...
...present novel needs a map and compass, Erdrich losing her way is preferable to most other writers steering a straight course. Here is her description of Shawnee Ray's busybody mother Zelda: "She should have had more children or at least a small nation to control. Instead, forced narrow, her talents run to getting people to do things they don't want to do for other people they don't like." Lipsha, as the novel begins, adrift in the white world: "He was caught in a foreign skin, drowned in drugs and sugar and money, baked hard in a concrete...
Eric T. Atkisson '94 nearly smashed his skull on the side of narrow ravine in New Hampshire's Mt. Washington. But he still craves the thrill of coasting down the slopes...
Which wouldn't be wrong, exactly, so much as it would be too narrow: in chasing the Raincoats' (Considerable) importance to the politics of pop, the pieces I've read tend to ignore their MUSICAL importance. Everybody in London learned something from reggae; the Raincoats' guitarist learned that a guitar could be wholly out of sync with the strong (first and third) beats in a measure, and the effect would be not chaos but openness. The drummer, Palmolive, learned that she didn't have to emphasize the strong beats at all: the loose, textural unaccented beats that showed up between...
...ruggedly independent." Outsiders could agree only on a general description: the counsel should be someone well known and respected, at least within the legal profession; probably retired or semi-retired (because he or she could not be involved in any active litigation); and preferably a Republican. How broad or narrow will the probe be? Said Justice Department spokesman Carl Stern: "We're not going to tell the special counsel what to investigate. He or she is going to tell...