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...Star Thrower, by Loren C. Eiseley
With top showings from Brady and fellow thrower freshman Edward Brucker last weekend at the Penn Relays, as well as strong performances from co-captain Justin Grinstead, Harvard knows it can compete...
...closest Rhodes ever comes to capturing the Inferno's dark joys is a scene involving a flame-throwing circus performer with a malfunctioning suit. It's unclear how the flame thrower, who has some information on the stripper's car, relates to Dante's heretics in their flaming tombs, but he's got a broken zipper on his protective suit and a jammed fuel line that causes him to go up in flames every minute or so. And he's desperate for a cigarette. As a sight gag, it works, and the flaming man's relative optimism that such...
Grinstead also ran well in his first competition, earning third at 800 meters, but it was his co-captain Brady that stepped up early in the season. The senior weight-thrower hurled a personal-best 17.85 meters, earning second place and an IC4A berth...
...from Srinagar. A massive movement opposed the Kashmir state government's controversial decision to allocate 100 acres (40 hectares) of land to a local Hindu pilgrimage group, and drew as many as 500,000 protesters on one day. The police fired on the crowds (Muddasar, the young stone thrower, was among those injured) and as many as 20 people were killed in the most intense week of protests. For Basharat, just 14, Amarnath was his initiation. I asked him what he felt the first time he threw a stone. "Anger," he says. But throwing wasn't enough...