Word: semis
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...mark, scooping up a shot by Providence's Taylor, and Mark Fusco broke up a very threatining two-on-one just before Friar Dave Wilkie could take a pass directly in front of the Crimson net. And with Fusco grabbing at him. Wilkie failed to score on a semi-breakaway with four minutes left...
Playwright Athol Fugard's semi-autobiographical Master Harold and the Boys takes place in segregated South Africa in 1950. What makes this a great work, however, is its ability to transcend the racial line and take us into a higher realm of human emotions. That is not to say apartheid is not a subject, but it is only one facet in this play of interlocking themes...
...Semi-final Pairings...
...weekend tourney was the team's Saturday performance. Shaking some first day jitters, Harvard placed all six racquetmen in semi-final play, the only team to do so in the tournament...
Part of the problem may lie in a distinction L 'Engle's herself refuses to make the distinction between "children's" literature and a standard issue adult novel. The books which have brought her renown are a trilogy of semi fables about space, time and the forces of darkness, seen through the eyes of young adolescents: A Wrinkle In Time. A Wind In the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Though filled with unexpected plot turns, all three of these adventures are held together by a guiding sense of larger purpose-not only of the author but of the universe...