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When I finished my penultimate college paper last week, I retired to the Winthrop House Library for a study break. After scanning the shelves of English and American literature and deciding that I wasnt quite bored enough to make Henry James seem like a good idea, I emerged with the first volume of the centenary edition of Charles Dickens Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation...
...reached the end of Dombey and Son last week, I read more and more slowly, putting the book down at increasingly frequent intervals. I wasnt ready to finish; I wasnt ready to abandon Florence or Walter or Captain Cuttle or Mr. Toots or Florences snappish-but-faithful dog, Diogenes. But people married and reconciled and died and before I knew it the book was over. It ended as many of Dickens novels end, with the older generation fading to insignificance, their wrongs righted or forgotten, and the younger generation brave and happy, ready to strike out on their...
Harvard may have won handily, but it wasnt able to blow the game open until the second half when it tallied three goals in less than six minutes to take a 4-0 lead. Before that point, the Tigers (6-4-3, 2-1-1) missed several point-blank opportunities to score, but were denied time and again with impressive saves by Johnson...
Harvard also had a difficult time moving the ball upfield, and often lost equal opportunities near midfield if Altchek wasnt able to get his head on it and redirect it to a teammate...
...Janeiro suffering from a severe ear infection accidentally received a vasectomy in August when he responded to the wrong doctors call in the waiting room of a local clinic. The patient wasnt alerted to the mix-up even by the nature and location of the procedure because he simply assumed that the infection had deep roots...