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From staff reports Portland Press Herald (Maine) 05-21-2004 Bonny Eagle wins on homer in ninth Byline: From staff reports Edition: FINAL Section: Sports Column: Schoolboy Roundup BIDDEFORD - Ryan Adams hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning Thursday to give Bonny...

WATERVILLE - Tyler Muzzy scored 25 points, including 6 for 8 from 3-point range, and he hauled down eight rebounds as the Husson College Eagles beat Thomas College 98-87 Wednesday night for their ninth straight win. Jason Harvey chalked up 20 points and...

For those who submit willingly to magic, Rosemary Sutcliff's new novel, The Mark of the Horse Lord, will cast its spell no less powerfully than any of her books since The Eagle of the Ninth. This is her fifteenth book for children, the flowering since 1950 of a remarkable talent which enchants readers old and young, exercises critics, and makes irrelevant the notion that the historical novel is barely concealed didacticism or an escape from the difficulty of writing for adolescents about contemporary...

Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth combines the presentation of the historic era of the Roman occupation of Britain with an acute sense of place. A feeling of belonging to a certain landscape becomes a vital part of the plot structure. She portrays remarkably the conflict between the Celtic tribal customs and the Roman way of imposing its own civilization wherever it went. The two elements are finally welded into an inseparable unity by one force of nature—the country itself…. P...

As in an earlier book, "The Eagle of the Ninth," Rosemary Sutcliff paints here a colorful and convincing picture of Roman Britain ["The Silver Branch"], this time in the latter part of the third century. The story begins during the rule of Carausius, and centers on Justin, newly come to Albion to take up his post of junior surgeon. Uneasily aware of intrigue and unrest about him, Justin and his kinsman Flavius, a young centurion, think at first the turmoil is centered in the conf...