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...would pick HC by twenty.”Holy Cross faced the University of Vermont in the Crusader’s season opener at home, falling 54-44.In the Crimson’s last time out at home, co-captain Linsday Hallion shined, grabbing 14 points in the second stanza and leading her team to a rare victory against cross-town rivals, Boston University for the first time in three years.Holy Cross will travel to Cambridge after a two week break in play. In their last showing, the Crusaders fell to Boston College, 77-58. The Eagles have topped Holy Cross...
...goals. On a Harvard man advantage at the beginning of the period, UNH’s Kacey Bellamy collected the puck behind her own net and found teammate Sam Faber open in the neutral zone. Faber rushed the net and buried the shorthanded tally just 48 seconds into the stanza. Minutes later, Wildcats defenseman Julia Marty intercepted the puck near center ice and passed it ahead to Micaela Long, who beat Kessler 1-on-1 to make the score 3-0 at the 5:22 mark.A reinvigorated Crimson squad emerged from the locker room in the third period and began...
...been mauled by the dogs of war, and none more so than children. Dylan Thomas famously refused to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London. Antoon is the polar opposite, and the deaths he elegizes are not accidental; they are calculated murders. In the most haunting stanza of the collection, from "To an Iraqi Infant," he addresses a young victim: "Don't be afraid!/ We'll arrange your bones/ Which ever way you want/ And leave your skull/ Like a flower...
...special significance. Every Australian knows Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River, but rivers also come up frequently in the poetry of Harry "Breaker" Morant. One of his best-known verses is At the River Crossing. Henry Lawson was another poet who wrote a lot about rivers. A stanza from his Song of the Darling River could apply to most of Australia's rivers. "I drown dry gullies and lave bare hills,/ I turn drought ruts into rippling rills./ I form fair islands and glades all green/ Till every bend is a sylvan scene." Rob Arthur, Melbourne...
...Compline,” one in a series of poems chronicling the liturgical hours that was published in the Spring 2006 issue of The Gamut. The poem exudes the wisdom of a poet twice her age and the energy of any college writer, as in its final stanza:“[W]hat evidence can there be for your eyes? They cast no shadow / but the shadow of my darkness, as reddening breath / passes within us and opens every window to light...