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...give it a try. This antihero, who assumes the name and hospital residency of an acquaintance who is killed in an accident before he can report for duty, makes some disastrous mistakes -- but such is the imposing aura of his purported professional credentials that he keeps his post through scrape after scrape, and sometimes does succeed. Nonetheless, he lives in fear of exposure, and tension mounts. The character is depicted with a remarkably skillful blend of empathy and distaste, so that from page to page the reader roots for him to get caught or to get away with...
Freshman Sandra Whyte opened the Crimson scoring eight minutes into the first period. Tri-Captain Brita Lind was forechecking and managed to scrape the puck loose at the blue line. She handed it to Whyte, who put it past Bingham with a low stick side shot...
COMPARISONS between A World Apart and Cry Freedom, Richard Attenborough's recent film about journalist Donald Woods' scrape with the South African government, are inevitable. The two films are, in fact, quite similar, although A World Apart had the misfortune to be released second. Many question the merit of making films about South Africa that focus on white liberals. Yet with A World Apart, this approach seems justified, not because First's life is more heroic than those of Black leaders, but because her family's lifestyle perfectly parallels that of middle class Americans. And since the film centers...
...pole and racked up $900 worth of body damage. To come up with the money, the two New York City prep school graduates hatched a bizarre robbery scheme. Over the next 48 hours, youngsters who had never been in trouble played out every parent's nightmare. A minor scrape gave way to panic, then to terror. All judgment vanished. At the end, Cooney, 18, was dead, and four other lives lay in ruins...
Sometimes Rodriguez has garnered financial support from fellowships and research grants. Other times she has managed to scrape money together from outside sources--a strategy she first utilized when her football-crazy high school refused to allocate any money to fund her trip to a national speech competition...