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...pulled further ahead late in the game by adding runs to its slim lead. After the Terriers scored twice in the sixth inning, giving them a 3-0 advantage, Harvard showed a late flicker, posing a threat in the final inning with consecutive singles. BU closed the game out moments later, as shortstop Melissa Dubay caught a rocket line drive off the bat of Crimson junior Melissa Schellberg and tossed the ball to Emily Roesch, who stomped on second base for a 6-4-3 double play...
...find real Nishi, too. A shaman wanders into our camp, his hornbill cap adorned with a mirror and a majestic eagle feather. One night, three silent Nishi fishermen carrying torches pass our camp. We watch their silhouettes flicker and vanish into the steep night forest. They had lit torches to find their way, and to scare off tigers and evil spirits. I shiver, glad that we're on the river, and just passing through...
...aware at all times of the other viewers and their widows. Focus on one screen does not shut out the others. As the viewer absorbs one tale, images from neighboring stories flicker in and out of his sight. The artifacts from one life—a bed, a photograph, a shot of the salt mines—encroach on the account of another. At times, sounds from the big screen break into the widow’s monologue. So while the widows speak of empty houses and long days spent in solitude, they are never alone in Varda?...
Nearly 100 students gathered atop the Science Center last night to witness the Space Shuttle Discovery flicker across the skies of Cambridge after its launch from NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center...
...Creek Park in Northwest Washington for signs of the missing woman, tips rushed in: Levy was buried in Virginia, or at the bottom of the Potomac, or had become pregnant and fled. Not until the attacks of Sept. 11 did the media spotlight trained on the case begin to flicker. Finally, on May 22, 2002, a man walking his dog in a Rock Creek Park ravine discovered Levy's remains. What he thought was a turtle shell turned out to be her skull...