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...Classmate Jamie Olson finished 35th in 21:44.15, and fellow rookie Eliza Ives clocked in at 22:01.00, 51st overall. “We really worked together well in the first mile,” Olson said. “[We] went out there and tried to get some placement in the pack and stick there, and I think that went really well.“The big part is working up Bear Cage [Hill],” she added. “I stuck with this one girl, caught up to the mini-pack in front...
...tattoo could have been better spent on shelters for the homeless, hospitals, clinics, cancer research or any other worthy cause [Nov. 5]. Such a donation would be a better way to show Soares' humanity. As a physician I have seen many tattoos of varied quality, meaning and placement on the body. I have encouraged my tattoo-loving patients to forgo the ink and instead donate their dollars to nonprofit medical research. Michael Canham, M.D., Denver...
...spent on his tattoo could have been better spent on nonprofit shelters, hospitals, clinics, cancer research or any other worthy cause [Nov. 5]. Such a donation would be a better way to demonstrate his humanity. As a physician I have seen many tattoos of varied quality, meaning and placement on the body. I have encouraged my tattoo-loving patients to forgo the ink and instead donate their dollars to nonprofit medical research...
...life sentence, trading simple things such as cigarettes “for socks / for their threads...to embroider little / pictures” for someone else. This single action simply reveals the beauty of life. Even in oppressive, seemingly eternal captivity, a muted contentment prevails. Through enjambment and strategic placement of dashes, the poem suggests that it might be read as a series of questions or statements—possibly between multiple speakers—introducing an element of interpretative ambiguity to Valentine’s portrait of desperation. Each of Valentine’s six sections explores a different manifestation...
...fights over who got to pass out snacks that day. I thought my experience in the impoverished areas of Boston had prepared me well for my new teaching post at Central High School. My students in Teach for America’s “Mississippi Delta” placement region are, in fact, similar to those in Dorchester in many ways. They, too, need a lot of help on homework, and they also fight, even though they’ve graduated from brownie squares to love triangles...