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...past is never dead; it's not even past." - Gavin Stevens, in William Faulkner's Requiem...
...lacrosse players with six packs. In Leverett, you’ll learn to love physics concentrators without six packs. And monkeybread, lots of monkeybread. But then again, so will everyone else. Housed in Lowell? In your single-turned-triple, you and your roommates can sit and discuss lattice theory, Faulkner, and the ancient exquisite art of combating cockroaches with boric acid. In Mather, you’ll have a spacious single, in which you can gather your hordes of new friends and plan a revolution. If you’re in Quincy, prepare to fight next year?...
...five Crimson finalists in the 200-yard butterfly, touching the wall in 2:01.41 seconds to beat ECAC record-holder Kerry Goodman of UNH by over two seconds. Harvard was paced in the meet’s opening days by contributions from some of its underclasmen. Freshman Katie Faulkner opened the meet for Harvard with a second-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle, while Mooney added a pair of top-six finishes. Cutter chipped in by claiming third in the 100-yard free while Faulkner took sixth. Freshman diver Caitlin High placed fifth in the one-meter dive...
...Chang got the ball rolling for the Crimson, teaming with juniors Lindsay Hart and Jaclyn Pangilinan, and freshman Alexandra Clarke to take the 400-yard medley relay in 3:54.39. Classmate Laurin Weisenthal led a Crimson sweep of the 1650-yard freestyle, winning in 17:25.76, with freshman Katie Faulkner and senior Kelly Blondin right behind her. Co-captain Noelle Bassi also notched an individual victory for the senior class, outkicking Clarke in the final two laps of the 200 fly to win in 2:03.80. Clarke touched the wall in 2:05.13, while Chang finished third. Junior Lindsay Hart...
...There's plenty of canon fodder on the lists. Zane, who's the books editor at the Raleigh News & Observer, has done a statistical breakdown of the results, so we know, for example, that Shakespeare is the most-represented author (followed by Faulkner, who ties with Henry James; they're followed by a five-way tie, which you can read about for yourself). But I'm more interested in the dark horses, the statistical outliers, which lay bare the secret fetishes and perversions of the literati. Douglas Coupland puts Capote's unfinished Answered Prayers at number one, blowing right...