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...derived from an old woman’s senility. The thin line between humor and pain that Women treads is on full display at the end of Act One, when A delivers an anecdote about her husband that veers from amusing to uncomfortable to simply tragic, all within the span of a couple minutes...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Dark Humor Disturbs | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...because life is short, and you can't defer death." That feeling suffuses Never Let Me Go. People have manufactured a class of clones to extend their own lives, and in so doing made mortality even more vivid and imminent. The clones' struggle to squeeze an entire life span into a couple of decades makes the book at once exhausting and moving. "The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading," Kathy muses at 31, a year after most clones have already been harvested. The struggle to enjoy life as the time bomb of mortality ticks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strange New World | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

...hasn’t lost since—a span of 15 games over which the Crimson has amassed a 13-0-2 mark and added the Ivy League and ECAC titles to its mantle...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ECAC Playoffs Pit Crimson vs. Clarkson | 3/4/2005 | See Source »

...best basketball to the Big Dance, the choice is not so clear, as the 12-2 team could have posted a 5-2 mark over its last seven league games and the 10-4 squad could have put together a 6-1 or 7-0 mark over the same span, and vice versa...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVY LEAGUE: Dancing Solo in the Ivies | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

...trade deadline just passed, and never before have so many superstars been dealt in such a short span...

Author: By Stewart H. Hauser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TAKE IT TO THE HAUS: February is the Cruelest Month | 3/1/2005 | See Source »

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