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...that which" clues the viewer to the ornate language the cowboys will try wrapping their tongues and minds around. It's as if they'd just read two novels - one by Ned Buntline, the other by Henry James - and are determined to arrange a shotgun marriage of the pair...
...voted to fund research on leftover fertility-clinic embryos, but his website says he favors experiments that "do not involve the use of human embryos" at all. His party platform calls for an outright ban on all embryo research, public or private. Meanwhile, a McCain-Palin ad lauds the pair as the "original mavericks" for supporting "stem-cell research to help free families from the fear and devastation of illness." But that's not courage; it's camouflage. Everyone favors adult-stem-cell research: the only fight is over experiments that destroy embryos...
...pregnancy, her grieving and finally the birth of her second child, a baby boy, a year later. It is, as McCracken writes, "a story so grim and lessonless it's better not to think about at all." But reading it is a mysteriously enlarging experience. It could pair neatly with Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking: it's hard to imagine two more rigorous, unsentimental guides to enduring the very bottom of the scale of human emotion...
...initial race, Palmer and Brants inched up in the standings, recording a weekend-best sixth in the final race of the regatta.Garrity skippered the B-division boat, joined by sophomore crew Meghan Wareham. Wareham was subbing for Garrity’s usual crew, injured senior Kerry Anne Bradford. The pair sailed to eighth overall, highlighted by a 4th-place finish in the regatta’s second race.Roger Williams won the regatta with 55 points. “We definitely have things to work on, but it’s a very long season so we thought...
...Harvard field hockey team dropped a pair of games last weekend in its final tune-up before the start of Ivy League play. The Crimson played Providence on Friday and was shut out, 4-0, at the Friar Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex in Providence, R.I. On Saturday, the team fared better but lost a heartbreaker to UMass. The game, which took place at Garber Field in Amherst, Mass, lasted two overtimes, but the Minutewomen ultimately prevailed on a goal from midfielder Erin Parker. “We faced some really tough competition this weekend,” co-captain...