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...received both honors the last two seasons. Juniors Shawn Haviland and Matt Vance were chosen as members of the preseason all-conference team. Haviland was last season’s Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, and Vance batted .318 with 25 stolen bases while recovering from shoulder surgery. The Crimson opens its 2007 season the weekend of March 10, when it will play four games in Clearwater, Fla. It will open its Ivy League season March 31 at Penn, and will return for its home opener on April 4 against Holy Cross. —JULIE R.S. FOGARTY
...high-rises along Division Street have become permanent homes for generations of the black underclass. There are few intact families among the 15,000 residents of the project. Only about 150 husbands have their names on leases. Single mothers like Diana, whose three sons have two different fathers, shoulder the burden of bringing up their children alone, living on an annual income of about $5,000, mostly from welfare...
Imagine my surprise, then, to open Robert Fagles' new translation of The Aeneid and discover that it's, you know, pretty great stuff. Here's the demise of Euryalus: "He writhes in death/ as blood flows over his shapely limbs, his neck droops,/ sinking over a shoulder, limp as a crimson flower/ cut off by a passing plow." Fagles published terrific translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey a few years ago, so maybe I shouldn't have been gobsmacked by his Virgil. They're all quite popular too, part of a renewed passion for the classical world. The culture...
...Australia's pre-eminent men of letters, Rodney Hall travels lightly. Look into his black shoulder bag and you'll simply find a 3B pencil fixed to an octavo notebook with an elastic band. These days it's all the writer needs for his mobile office, as his best tool is a superbly exercised imagination. Ever since the then aspiring young poet left Brisbane for a 10,000-km walking trek around the Mediterranean almost 50 years ago, Hall has worked best off the leash. Much of his creatively vast colonial trilogy, which began with 1988's Captivity Captive...
...dignity and to forge a future of reconciliation among Iraqi tribes and sects. But immersed in their own rhetoric and standing defiantly in the wreckage they have brought about, Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair - through their actions and inaction, words and silence - stand not apart from but shoulder-to-shoulder with barbarity. Andrew McCreath Aberdeen, Scotland...