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...physiognomy of botanicals, the silence beneath seas, and the sounds of fountains whose tones vary slightly from that of rain. It is rare for a text to be lovely, lilting, and dealing in love, without ever lapsing into the saccharine. “Azorno” is hard to pick up and put down—not simply because the maze is hard to enter again until it has already been read through once and returned to, but because you simply may not want to leave its swirling eddies of worlds. The novel could be accused of slightness...
...Though Princeton is once again picked to finish in the middle of the pack, one spot where the Tigers are ahead of the game is at running back. Senior Jordan Culbreath, a unanimous First-Team All-Ivy pick in ’08, is back after leading the league with 1,206 rushing yards. Princeton will have a new starting quarterback for the fourth consecutive year, with sophomore Tommy Wornham getting the snaps. Linebackers Scott Britton and Stephen Cody, who combined for 166 tackles last year, lead...
...turf.From the very beginning, Keating grew up surrounded by her favorite sport. The Crimson standout’s hometown of Bryn Mawr, Penn. is a field hockey hotspot and, as one of six sisters—all of whom play competitively—Keating seemed destined to pick up a stick.“Field hockey is really big in my area, even more so because I went to Catholic school,” Keating says. “When I was younger, my grade school didn’t even offer soccer.”So it was lacrosse...
...Harvard Alumni Association announced the 17 finalists for senior class marshal yesterday, a group which will be narrowed to eight in a second round of balloting to begin today. These eight students will take on the responsibility of planning senior class activities, helping pick the Class Day speaker, and organizing future alumni events. The two students with the most votes in the round will be designated first and second marshal. This year, 17 students advanced to the finalist round, whereas in past years there were 16 finalists. Harvard Alumni Association senior class coordinator Alexandra Monti could not be reached...
...others like him. Both left- and right-wing not-for-profit groups operate as self-anointed media watchdogs, and one of the largest of these - the liberal group Media Matters for America - has a multimillion-dollar budget. Staff members monitor Beck's every public utterance, poised to cherry-pick the most inflammatory sentences. (Conservative outfits do the same for the likes of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.) These nuggets are used in turn to rev up donations to political parties and drive ratings for the endless rounds of talking-head shows...