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Baker and Simon hit a patch of rough luck in races 9-11, the first two of which they finished in 10th place and in the last of which they finished 11th...
...outskirts of the drab seaside town of Ashkelon on Israel's central plain. These days, Mardawi, a trim 40-year-old with a close-cropped gray beard, says he rejects violence. "We can't crush the Israelis and they can't crush us," he admits, sitting on a rough brown blanket on his metal bunk. "You can't crush an entire people. We need to give peace talks a chance." That means giving Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas enough time to secure the release of prisoners like Mardawi. Palestinian militants agreed to Abbas' request for a halt to attacks, mainly because...
...write. After dancing in an African troupe in the British seaside city of Brighton during and after university, she went to work as arts-and-music editor for the London-based black women's magazine Pride, nurturing her poetry and fiction on the side. When she had a rough draft of 26a, she took it to the Creative Writing M.A. course at the University of East Anglia and honed it there. With a high-powered agent on board, 26a - after a hotly contested auction - went to Chatto and Windus as part of a two-book deal. Ostensibly a chronicle...
...sleepy, almost polite affectlessness (like Beth Orton or Suzanne Vega), the moments when Edwards eviscerates cads with such lines as "You say you like me in your memory/ You've got to be f___ing kidding me" sound less like insults than laments. She would like to be rough around the edges, but she knows softness is her best feature...
...been a rough start to the season for the Ivy squads already in play. Led by Penn (0-5), the Ivy League has combined to open the year 0-16 through yesterday….Defending Ivy champion Princeton (0-2) opened its season with a pair of one-run losses to Richmond last weekend, but kicks its schedule into high gear with 10 games in 10 days over its Southern spring break swing beginning this afternoon at William and Mary….Defending Red Rolfe division champ Dartmouth won’t open its season until March 17 after...