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Finally, on Day Four, after the last addresses are exchanged and the chants of "Power!" subside, after the smell of suntan oil has faded and the final SMILE AND BE HAPPY! posters have been torn from the walls, hundreds of Kristis and Brandis and Dawns and Lolitas, winners all, tuck their teddy bears under their arms and file, a little sadly, into the buses that will take them back to parents and kid sisters and competition for boys and competition with boys and grades that will often be less than Superior. "Many of them write to me years later," says...
...Beowulf from the monster Grendel's point of view. In Gardner's telling, a blind harper appears at King Hrothgar's hall and sings, transforming Hrothgar's bloody, sordid career into "ringing phrases, magnificent, golden, and all of them, incredibly, lies. The man had changed the world, had torn up the past by its thick, gnarled roots and had transmuted it, and they who knew the truth, remembered...
Print reporters are permitted to stay in off-limits areas, but they must first report to the local police station. At the discretion of the commanding officer, they may be assigned police escorts and travel through violence-torn areas in police vehicles. Many journalists fear that riding with the police will affect their credibility in the eyes of blacks. Newsmen and activists alike are concerned that the absence of reporters and cameras could result in increased brutality against protesters. The Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, bitterly charges that the government wants to restrict...
Mazza—who underwent surgery to repair torn ligaments in his left thumb on Feb. 9—returned to the field on the first day of practice at full-strength and well-ahead of schedule, participating in contact drills that he’d initially been projected to miss for the duration of spring ball...
Sophomore Kathryn Tylander, the starting goalkeeper for the women’s lacrosse team, walked assisted off Jordan Field with a torn ACL in the final minute of the March 16 game against Syracuse. As she stepped to the sidelines, the Crimson saw both an injured teammate and the shallowness of its roster...