Word: vals
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...first chapter, Marian is faced with an exciting prospect—the possibility of friendship with another outcast of the Norton School, Val Boyd. Val’s parents flit about the world while leaving Val with a caretaker in the Village, and so she, like Marian, feels fatherless. Val is also ostracized at Norton, because she leaves school early each day and all the other girls know that she visits a psychoanalyst in the afternoons. To them, she seems neurotic and strange...
...Val and Marian quickly form an intense friendship. At first they simply play games and spend Saturdays with one another. But soon they both become fixated on a single task: the secret worship of a gifted but lazy pianist named Henry Orient...
...would have lost the match, so that was huge,” junior Elsa O’Riain said. At the top spot, O’Riain and senior Melissa Anderson started off strong as they led, 4-0, against the Tigers’ Carol Salge and Federica Val Adrichem. Clemson’s duo was able to cut the lead to 4-3 before O’Riain and Anderson finished them off with four straight game victories. At the third position, junior Preethi Mukundan and freshman Laura Peterzan almost saw an early lead disappear but recovered to secure...
DECLARED PRESIDENT. RENE PREVAL, 63, ex-leader of Haiti; by election officials, following allegations of ballot fraud after Prval's lead appeared to be dwindling as the vote count wore on; in Port-au-Prince. An agronomist by training, Prval is beloved by the country's impoverished majority. He was President from 1996 to 2001 and replaces the interim government installed after the 2004 ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
...Given the mounting violence and allegations and counter-allegations flying between rival Haitian candidates, the UN Mission and other foreign groupings, holding a credible election right now becomes more of a challenge. Presidential candidate Charles Henri Baker, who trails behind frontrunner and former president René Préval, has preemptively blamed "tampering" by the international community in the event that he loses. "The next day, you will see civil war," he predicts. Préval, on the other hand, is so confident of his popularity that he has done almost no campaigning. "His record speaks for itself," says...