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...hundred dollars"--you have to fight back the image of Jonathan Lipnicki, the kid from Jerry Maguire. But these doubts are pulverized by the book's devastating set pieces, which are of the kind only a genuine talent who knows exactly what he wants to say can pull off. Foer's rendition of the Allied bombing of Dresden, in a flashback involving Oskar's grandfather Thomas, has the punishing, visceral vividness of the battle scenes from The Red Badge of Courage. "Rapid, approaching explosions" sound "like an applauding audience running toward us." After the first wave of bombs, Thomas rushes...
...never wavered on defense, so even when we were struggling on offense we were still ahead,” Princeton coach Joe Scott said. “Then we did some nice things on offense that let us pull away...
...first two games, Harvard grabbed large leads early, only to watch the Highlanders pull within one, 29-28, in the first and draw even at 29 in the second. The Crimson held off the surge in each game to jump out to a 2-0 lead...
...water and sanitation are the basic necessities not only for a life of dignity and health but also to make an economy work. They would also accept the fact that the poor may need help to meet their basic needs. But they might be skeptical that the world could pull off any effective way to give that help. If the poor are poor because they are lazy or their governments are corrupt, how could global cooperation help...
...changes in place, the third game proved to be the closest of the three. The teams remained deadlocked to start the frame until two blocks and two kills from Freese—who supplemented his match-high 11 blocks with 11 kills—allowed the Crimson to pull away in the final stages...