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...only audience member at Sanders who didn’t seem to appreciate Miller’s ingenuity was James Otis, Class of 1743, whose austere white marble bust stood just a few feet behind the artist. When Miller scrolled Wilson’s notorious quote across the Sanders stage, one could almost see the statuesque Otis shudder. After all, Otis was killed by a bolt from the heavens in 1783; the lightning metaphor might have struck too close to home for the august alum...
Theta President Sarah W. Currie ’06 stood by the register marking down which jeans were sold. Surveying the scene, she remarked with a laugh, “Considering the weather, the turnout’s a lot better than we expected.” Turnout was definitely high, driving some impatient shoppers to strip down to their underwear and try on jeans in a corner or dark hallway, rather than wait in line for the two green tents that constituted the changing room...
...wanted his next book to engage fully with the world after 9/11. "The present," he says, "had become horribly interesting." Horribly interesting is also not a bad way to describe most of McEwan's work. Among his generation of British writers--Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie--McEwan always stood out as the one with the morbid streak. His early short stories brought to nasty behavior and abnormal psychology the full resources of literary nuance. Then came his first novel, The Cement Garden, in 1978, about four children who have buried their mother in the basement. In The Comfort...
...same time, Boe and the Harvard blue liners stood equally firm, keeping the game knotted at zero for the majority of the first two and a half periods until Vaillancourt broke through...
...eventful second period in the ECAC tournament final matchup between Harvard and Dartmouth, the referees paused to fill a hole in the ice of Messa Rink. If only the Big Green had the same opportunity to fill the holes in its special teams units, it might have stood a chance against Harvard, instead falling 4-1 on three power-play goals and a short-handed tally...