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...minor characters are naturally less developed. We don't see enough of Joan (Erin Pond) or Jack (Matthew L. Leavitt) to understand them or care about them. Too much is left unsaid. Was there a flirtation between them? Does Jack really pine for Jen? What was the real nature of Jen and Joan's friendship...
This, one might have thought, would have been enough to make Copley grab a berth on the next ship to London. He did nothing of the sort. At 28 he was already the one big fish in Boston's tiny cultural pond. In London he would have been a sprat in a sea of talent. So he hung back for nine more years, until 1774, and left only when the riots and disturbances that presaged the American Revolution threatened to ruin his market...
Harvard-Yale narrowly defeated their counterparts across the pond, winning 19 events to the Brits' 18. The top finishers from the Harvard-Yale meet (won by Harvard) comprised the combined squad...
...Turner teaches cats how to land on their feet," says a cnn correspondent who knows him well. "We are confident he'll do the right thing. He has confided to higher-ups--and I was there--that he would just as soon be a little fish in a big pond...
Bats' built-in echolocation system is so finely tuned that it can detect insects' footsteps, changes in air currents caused by vibrating insect wings, even the ripple in a pond as a minnow's fin breaks the surface...