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...Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” seem impregnable. Twain’s classic book elevates the form of the picaresque novel into a story of individual freedom as Huck Finn and the escaped slave Jim row down the Mississippi River liberated from the constraints and judgments of society. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is undoubtedly a classic of American literature, but too often literary scholarship tries to defend every aspect of a masterpiece as a successful aesthetic decision of the author. Sometimes reading a novel afresh...

Author: By Theodore J. Gioia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Second Look at Comedy in Twain | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...team challenged some of New England’s best programs in two major regattas over the two-day span, finishing with matching fourth place team efforts at the 70th Owen, Mosbacher & Knapp Trophies race at Brown and the 81st Boston Dinghy Club Cup on the Charles River...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing Competes In Four Regattas | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Nicolas Vicchio, RIVER VALE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...their attempt to reassure nervous freshmen, the housing lottery is indeed random. House spirit may make students want some Houses over others, setting up expectations while knowing full well that they may not be fulfilled. Nothing can be done about the assignments, however hard we may pray to the river gods. Call me a river atheist; I got Pfoho. But who’s complaining...

Author: By Vidya Rajan | Title: Animal House | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

While the lightweights stayed home on the Charles River to host Buffalo, the Heavyweight crews traveled to San Diego to participate in the Crew Classic...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Excels in First Spring Races | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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