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Jonathan Hullah is from Sioux Lookout which, he tells us, lies "nearly 2000 miles northwest of Toronto." Although this sounds to an American like code for the North Pole, the narrative stays in the township long enough to give the young Hullah a youthful bout with scarlet fever (childhood disease is a favorite repeated trope of Davies), the friendship of an Indian healer and wise woman named Mrs. Smoke (who saves him with neither scalpel nor the Merck Manual) and a lifelong interest in medicine, especially non-traditional medicine...
...three games that Rutgers won, it opened up big leads that Harvard was unable to surmount. Similarly, in the two games the Crimson won, the Scarlet Knights made furious comeback attempts that were ultimately unfulfilled...
After Rutgers took the hard-fought third set, Harvard once again shocked the volleyball cognoscenti by taking a bid lead against the Scarlet Knights in set four. But Rutgers, in a perversion of the classic no State '83 underdog formula, rallied back. Again, though, the Crimson refused to be the Boston Red Sox, and held on to win the set, 15-13, and even the match...
Perhaps most engaging are Edmunds' interactions with nature--in the form of personified plants. These pieces are short enough that they can sustain themselves to the end, without the scarlet-hued melodrama of death or memory fading them. They are appropriately infused with sunlight by more lively color images. One of Edmunds' most vital poems, "Willows Coming Into Leaf," has haiku-like impact...
...wasn't happy," says Father Joseph Vandrisse, a former French missionary in the Middle East who now covers the Vatican for the French daily Le Figaro. Wojtyla lost his mother when he was nine, his father when he was 21, and his only brother, a doctor, died during a scarlet-fever epidemic. "He has meditated a lot on the meaning of suffering. Now that he is weakened in a world that is horrified by sickness and death, he thinks that the image of someone who is suffering is important for the church." To the sick whom he visits, the Pope...