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Moore has averaged 26.2 minutes and 6 points per game, but has also tried to avoid stressing the ankle...
Though it serves a useful purpose in the Quad, allowing residents to avoid possibly dangerous late-night Doritos runs to Porter or Harvard Square, the Celeris pilot program must now either take steps to break even or close in failure. Satisfying the munchies for 75 students a day, while a noble cause, isn’t enough to justify the huge expenditure...
Still, the Grimeses say they experience almost paralyzing fear every time a U.S. soldier dies in Iraq, then gut-wrenching guilt over their relief it wasn't Billie. They avoid the news whenever possible. Wanda's worst moment was seeing, on CNN, a still smoking armored ambulance that had been hit with a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad. The vehicle was just like the one Billie drives. "It was all I could do to hold it together and not become hysterical at work," says Wanda, a nurse...
...Sarajevo to smaller-scale bloodlettings and betrayals in England. Though Peter figures just occasionally in the story, he will be its primary enigma, a troubled, potentially violent man who leads us to Barker's central quandaries: By what formula can evil be understood? By what means can we avoid being complicit in its schemes? The questions are teased out expertly. Her dialogue is as sharp and spare as ever. But Barker may be too anxious not to frame the answers in obvious strokes. Her tale proceeds intriguingly, only to end by teaching us a trick we didn't come...
...Double Vision (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 258 pages) ought to be a must to avoid. It's anything but. Granted, it has all those things, plus 9/11, Slobodan Milosevic and a good many predatory birds. But it's also the work of the subtle British novelist Pat Barker, whose dry-eyed manner and nuanced view of good and evil made her Regeneration trilogy, about World War I, a triumph. Her spare but still sometimes resplendent writing, her gift for menace--it's all in this book, and it makes you want to follow her even when she gets lost...