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...plague of silver locusts. When the letters have been collected they are laid flat on the bed of the press, where the text is meticulously spaced out and held together by flat strips of metal called 'furniture'. The arrangements of this spacing material form the almost invisible choices of margin and indentation--these are the most crucial work of the printer. As Hulsey puts it, in setting a line of a poem the difference between its looking right and looking wrong is sometimes less than half a point. A few assembled stanzas laid out this way glimmer like distant, crowded...
...upholds the integrity of literature-it upholds the ideals of poetry in which every letter, every word has its exact weight. In which the silence of a stanza break is lead-measured under the page and can be held in the hand. In which the stacked steel of the margin holds off time from the text, makes a mind-haven in the rush of language...
...Bala bagged his other goal late in the third period. Taking a pass from freshman center Dominic Moore in the low slot, he rung it top shelf to give Harvard the 5-1 margin of victory...
...better be, because the stakes for Bush could not be higher. In a new TIME/CNN poll, Bush trails John McCain, 35% to 37%, for the first time in the key state of New Hampshire. The poll's margin of error means the race is a statistical dead heat, but the trend is ominous for Bush. As recently as July the Texas Governor was swamping McCain in Granite State polls by more than 30 points. McCain, with his anti-Establishment appeal and his pow story, has all the momentum in New Hampshire, making him, not Bush, the candidate with buzz going...
Unlike their male counterparts, however, the women's team was able to compensate for its shortcomings in the sabre, as the Crimson dominated Brandeis with both the foil and the epee, winning each of those events by a convincing 8-1 margin...