Word: ninth
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...Rookie of the Year nod after a season of dominance. Ranked as high as third in the nation in singles play, Blake posted a 18-2 dual and 34-4 overall record this year. Paired with his older brother, Tom, in doubles, the Blake brothers are currently the ninth best team in the country...
...other eight trustees--who include former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, former University of Chicago president and current Harvard Fellow Hanna H. Gray, and former Du Pont CEO Irving S. Shapiro--discussed the appointment of a ninth trustee and formally elected Knowles last week...
...would walk, even to the ninth floor," said Jamin F. Kerner '00, who lives on the first floor of old Leverett...
Freshman hurler Dan Sachem (1-0), who won his first career game, shut Northeastern down for four straight innings, and Harvard went into the bottom of the ninth needing...
...been 20 years since John Irving's fourth novel, The World According to Garp, made its author famous. Not only did the book attract a massive readership, but it also inspired a cult following and such extra-literary phenomena as Garp T shirts and fan clubs. Irving's ninth novel, A Widow for One Year (Random House; 537 pages; $27.95), is unlikely to generate a similar hullabaloo. That is not because Irving's storytelling skills have waned; his new novel is in many respects his best since Garp. But over the past two decades, serious fiction has been elbowed ever...