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...about safety. This sort of conflation serves as a good metaphor for the action in Amidon’s novel. Each inhabitant of Amidon’s sleepy college town is in the process of losing agency over his or her own life, and is desperate to regain it: Kathryn, the town’s musician-turned-music teacher, feels that she is slowly losing touch with her son Conor but doesn’t know how to help him; Walt Steckl, the town’s loitering electrician, can’t help drinking and falls into unruly lewdness...
...consecutive Ivy North title. In a similar trajectory, Harvard scored first yesterday but relinquished its lead in the bottom of the third. And while the Crimson looked to rally in the later innings—it narrowed the Terriers’ lead in the fifth and was primed to regain the lead in the sixth—things just didn’t fall Harvard’s way as the team came up just short in its effort to close out its season with a win. “It was a good game,” co-captain...
...which came within a half-percentage point of winning the presidency in 2006, is a distant third. If Calderon's federal government, and the Mexico City administration of PRD Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, don't contain this epidemic to Mexicans' satisfaction, the PRI may position itself this summer to regain the presidency in 2012. (See pictures of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico...
...that sounds like a crazed conspiracy, Dieudonné's announcement of his electoral designs was in the same league. "Anti-Zionism will be the main issue opposing us to all the other parties," he declared on March 21. "Zionism is gangrening France and is a threat. The Republic must regain its good sense and we must throw all [Jewish] organizations...
...four-hit pitching gem from UNC Greensboro starter Hannah Angel last Tuesday to beat the Crimson ace. Though not one to make excuses, Brown pointed to fatigue as a possible reason for the loss. Ever the competitor, she could not wait for a chance to “regain her footing...