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This past year the National Book Award celebrated its 60th anniversary by conducting a public poll to select the best work of fiction that had won the award. To make the short list for this poll, the National Book Foundation balloted a number of select writers to pick their three favorite winners. Interestingly, four out the six books chosen were short story collections—the collected stories of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and John Cheever respectively. Only two were novels—Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity?...
...Crimson took advantage of the good weather and short course with three players finishing in the top 12. Sophomore Mark Pollak led the way by posting a score of 215 (69-77-69), good enough for fourth place...
...strong two-run comeback effort by the Crimson—led by a 2-RBI single from co-captain Melissa Schellberg, who is also a Crimson sports editor—in the sixth inning fell short. Penn ended the game with a double play in the bottom of the seventh...
...been approaching one game at a time, one pitch at a time,” Allard said. “We had a lot of confidence going into today, where we were playing strong against Princeton and Cornell [last weekend]...It was just disappointing that we came up short the second game...
...socialist government can follow through on the deeper structural reforms Greece needs to implement to rein in its staggering debt and jump-start its moribund economy. As part of its pledges to its European partners, Greece has already cut civil servants' pay and raised taxes. But those are merely short-term measures. The bigger challenge is to reform the country's tax and pension systems, liberalize controlled areas of its economy and cut the size of the civil service. All of these will require taking on powerful interest groups, like the country's unions...