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...marks. Yale and Cornell also boast three home wins, against only one loss apiece. Dartmouth is the only squad with a losing record, in fact winless at Memorial Field in four games. Penn is second worst at 2-2, although one of its losses was against crosstown rival Villanova, whose partisans likely made up half of the attending crowd...
...Korea had embarrassed Beijing by testing a nuclear device despite repeated warnings by the Chinese against doing so. By at least agreeing to return to the six-party talks, Kim is preventing a loss in international face for his status-conscious friends in Beijing. The fact that China's rival Japan had begun making noises about the possibility, however remote, of starting its own nuclear program undoubtedly added to the pressure...
...heart and reach out to them! Then they'll stop bullying me!" Instead they throw her in the pool and force her to eat octopus (the Japanese word for octopus, tako, sounds like Takako). Overnight she sprouts octopus legs and wreaks hideous revenge by stuffing her tentacles into her rival's mouths and popping their eyeballs out from the inside in wildly grotesque panels...
...Yamazaki tweaks the tropes of girl's manga up to preposterous proportions. Characters don't just cry, for examples, rivers of tears flood out of their faces. In another story, Octopus Girl competes in a beauty pageant. Everything is perfectly cute and delightful until centipedes pour out of a rival's outfit. "Dear God!" marvels Octopus Girl, with a look of deep concern, followed quickly by, "I put those centipedes in her outfit. That's the first bitch down!" Labeled for "mature" readers, but without an ounce of maturity, Toru Yamazaki's pukingly funny Octopus Girl reads like the notebook...
...astounding winds, especially on the second half of the Head. Over this crucial section, the gusts came as a straight head wind. As a result, Radcliffe’s lightweight crew also had a disappointing day, coming in 44th with a time of 18.00.97, over a minute behind its rival Tigers—the top-placing lightweight boat yesterday. —THE CRIMSON STAFF