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Both Harvard and boats have been together for barely a week and four of the varsity oarsmen and their cox are sophomores (freshmen are ineligible for Ivy League varsity crew competition): In fast, Fitzgerald's only qualm about the contest was that "we let Penn slip by us for fourth place...
...writings by Nobel laureates always cause a stir of comment, but this novel by Author William Golding arrives in the slip stream of controversy as well. The decision last fall by the Swedish Academy to confer the 1983 prize on Golding aroused unusual ire; one academy member was angered enough to make an unprecedented public complaint. Critics quickly chimed in, charging that Golding's work was not up to Nobel standards and that a number of worthier candidates had been overlooked. Defenders countered with accusations of literary elitism and sour gripes...
Covello theorized that the suspect had been rifling drawers in the suite when one of her roommates returned home, forcing the intruder into the closet. She came home, her roommate left, and the suspect was trying to slip out when she discovered him, Covello speculated...
...small of his back, and that was how he was sitting now. The gray light of morning filled the room. There was the smell of a fire that had died. On a table lay a stack of books?the memoirs of Presidents. In each, he had inserted a slip of paper, marking a place where he had found something of interest. That is how Nixon had spent his last night as President. He had been seeking solace from the only men who could truly know what he was feeling?his kinsmen in history. I simply could not render personal judgment...
...stage and intones in a swift singsong, "Those in the front line, please wait on the right. For the rest, thank you very much and please leave, as quickly as possible, the way you came in." Silently, like defendants in traffic court, the losers gather their street clothes and slip...