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...meter and three-meter diving events. Sophomore Greg Walker dove well, earning a score of 573.05 points, and he edged out second-place junior Ed Hefferon from UMass by 10 points. Freshman Erik Frost turned in a notable fourth place with 466.65 points, and freshman Amias Moore Gerety earned eighth place with 337.95. Walker, Harvard's lone scorer in the three-meter diving, won that event as well with 693.15 points, this time out-doing Hefferon by 100 points...
Harvard, led by sophomore Camila McLean, who finished second with a score of 503.20 in the one-meter diving competition, also placed divers in third, fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth, as it thoroughly destroyed the competition...
After Jefferson's death in 1826, Thomas, Madison and Eston all ended up as freedmen within 25 miles of one another near the town of Chillicothe, Ohio. The brothers were quite fair, being only an eighth black, and Jeffersonian in appearance: tall with reddish hair and gray eyes. But Thomas would become a leader in the black community, founding an African Methodist church. Madison put down roots near a mulatto settlement and also stayed in the black community. "Though we consider it a gift of God, our one enduring question is why Madison chose to stay black when it might...
...game winner came just 10 seconds after the Hurricanes killed off the Devils' eighth power play of the game and gave New Jersey its fifth straight victory at home and seventh in the last nine overall...
...staring straight forward." The author also leaves the reader in unnecessary suspense about what happened during the crucial "perfect summer, awful summer," includes characters with dubious importance to the plot and tells the reader too much about them. This is Ray ostensibly talking about Jill Thompson, one of his eighth grade teachers and a character which could be eliminated with no harm to the book: "She used to play cribbage with us kids...[including] Jane Ellwey...Jane got killed in a car crash after the homecoming game my junior year...Lots of people died in cars out on those back...