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Bertagna started skating as a nine-year-old on the pond next to his home in Arlington. "I grew up in a town where it's hockey, hockey, hockey. Everybody played. My older brother played on the hockey team. He got me started," Bertagna recalled...
...called the rally to protest Harvard's inaction following the deaths of two children in Muddy Pond, a Harvard-owned marsh located in Jamaica Plain. The University later agreed to fill in the pond, and the project was completed last summer...
...That in order to secure her release Peter and John then set but to blackmail a cop who is dealing the confiscated dope on the sly? That complications follow--from the introduction of heroin to a mock-up of the South Station to a climactic shoot-out at Walden Pond between the cops and the Mafia? That Peter and Susan survive it all to ride off into the sunset...
...should the reader of this book. Only Amis' talent as a storyteller and stylist keeps Girl, 20 from settling into the pettiest smugness. But then, an Amis novel has always been like a naughty jaunt on a thinly iced pond. Too much moral or critical weight concentrated in any one place means breaking through to the shallows beneath the surface...
Charles U. Daly's bid for the presidency is cut short, despite his strong showing in the New Hampshire primary, when he accidentally drives his Mercedes into Muddy Pond with two Grays Hall secretaries in the back seat. The Democratic National Committee awards him its consolation prize of "Mr. Congeniality" and he resigns from Harvard to run a late-night talk show...