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Fortunately, the Peddie School, where Mule prepped, did arrange for coaching three afternoons a week. In return, the school's lone diver dominated the prep school ranks with three New Jersey State Championships, two Eastern. Interscholastic titles and three All-America nominations...
...Princeton Game, February 27: A filled, steamy IAB. Fans in the weight room above the floor, hundreds more ringing the court, jostling for space where only a lone photographer had ranged before. All 2000 of them--all the IAB can hold--were on their feet down the frenzied stretch, as the Crimson fought back from a ten-point deficit to put the game into overtime...
FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera -A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone -The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Bowen - The Company of Women, Mary Gordon -Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson -The Lone Pilgrim, Laurie Colwin -Other People's Worlds, William Trevor
...LONE PILGRIM...
...functions, fiction brings back news from the front lines of the war between the sexes. In recent years, such bulletins have made for increasingly grim reading: the men are swinish, the women strident, and most of the fun has gone out of the struggle. The 13 stories in The Lone Pilgrim thus offer what amounts to a minority report. Author Laurie Colwin is a remarkably cheerful messenger. She tells of women and men who somehow manage to live vibrantly through the problems they cannot solve and the fights they cannot...