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Crossing the bay, the wetlands are dotted with a sofa here, a plastic garbage can there and suddenly along the causeway, a flotilla of beached, battered boats appears, awkwardly stuck in the median, wedged against highway signs, land-bound, askew and sad. Capturing the wholesale destruction of a hurricane is difficult. We learned that with Hurricane Katrina where the images, no matter how awful, were insufficient measured against the reality. The most overpowering sensation is the smell, a stench that seems to imprint itself on the brain's memory bank, suddenly wafting back hours after you have left the scene...
...Pollak said. “It’s pretty difficult to judge where the hole locations are or find the greens.” “It was tough to get the ball to back pins—when it hit the greens it just stuck there,” Mayer added. Behind Shuman, Pollak tied for 20th in his second tournament appearance. Turning in a very respectable 223 (70-76-77), Pollak delivered a solid performance despite his relative inexperience. Rounding out the Harvard contingent, Mayer tied for 29th place, 78-73-75, senior John Christensen shot...
...ship—Pnin to indifference (against which he cracks), Kimbote to delusion (to which he succumbs), Humbert to lust (which drives him to kidnap and murder). The more forward motion these characters seemed to make, the clearer it became to the reader that they were stuck in the same place. But while Nabokov’s characters were ultimately the victims of their author’s mechanisms, they were also, fundamentally, the labors of a loving creator.It’s difficult to make the same case for Marcus Messner, the protagonist of Philip Roth?...
...2005.Having since then withstood three different coaches and countless teammate changes, these four of the five seniors on the current team remain today as a steady ship of calm amidst the seas of turmoil. “We’re the first core group of upperclassmen that have stuck together in the last couple years, and I think that we all bring something different to the team,” Rhodes said. The determination and work ethic they share has worked in tandem with their individual talents.Anchoring the defense looms Rhodes, who this year became only the second three...
...appear out of nowhere when a star begins to sing, and no spot-boys to keep the sets functioning, film and TV shoots have ground to a halt because of the action brought by the Federation of Western India Cine Employees. "All shoots are off. The producers have not stuck to the terms of the agreement they signed with us 1 1/2 years back," says Dinesh Chaturvedi, general secretary of the federation. The timing will hurt films slated for release around the Hindu festival of Diwali; along with this week's Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, this period usually...