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...Armstrong's two two-run triples, the Crimson pounded away at Tufts right-hander Kate van Quern...
...truffling in his works for deep-lying meanings. His word games in Harlequins justify the warning. Butterflies, however, may be chased. Nabokov, for instance, taught at Cornell University after emigrating to the U.S., and his clownish alter ego taught at "Quirn." The Oxford English Dictionary directs the student to "Quern," which derives in its first definition from a variety of languages, including old High German, Swedish and Russian ("Zhernov"), and means "a simple apparatus for grinding corn." The second definition is "a large piece of ice." These are not illuminating; but "obsolete variant of kern" leads directly to "corn...
...Wednesday, with Rio's streets almost deserted except for strings of colored lights, colored plastic pillars and a few exhausted stragglers, the highly vital statistics told only part of the story. Ambulance calls: 1,827. Street fights: 90. Arrests: 422. Complexes eased and frustrations forgotten: Quern sabe? What the statistics did not show was the thousands of times the police simply looked the other way, following an unwritten law governing the free spirits of carnival. "Americans have money," rasped one exhausted tourist when it was all over, "but Brazilians have soul...
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