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...take a 3-2 lead. All three goals came from a feeder from the behind the net to a player who quick-sticked the ball in. The most bizarre goal of the game came when the teams were tied 3-3. Freshman Jess Halpern was at the top of arc and looking to pass to a teammate who was cutting through the middle. The ball went past the teammate and past the Princeton goalie into the back of the net to give Harvard a 4-3 advantage. The rest of the half remained neck and neck. When one team would...
...clean and decisive. It was the sound of chopping wood and then—thwack!—it reached their ears for a second time. They both looked in that direction. There in the middle distance stood a stable boy, poised gracefully at the peak of his next arc above a cord of oak. The axe, a natural extension of his body, fell.Chapter 2 to be found in ArtsMonday...
...must put 95% of their dividend and 80% of their bonus back into the town. This leaves plenty of cash for pet projects. In the village's central plaza oversized statues of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping gaze out at replicas of the U.S Capitol Building and France's Arc du Triomphe. Nearby, the world's largest copper bell tolls for good luck...
...single story. The rice balls for breakfast, the chicken and egg dish called Oyako Donburi (literally “mother and child rice bowl”) for lunch, and the custard-filled crêpe at a street corner in Harajuku the next day equally eluded a coherent column arc. Despite, or perhaps because I wanted so desperately for my experience in Tokyo to fit neatly into pre-determined, necessarily punctuated storylines—the quest for the best ramen bar! My dangerous Fugu adventure!—my search turned up empty. Then came the nostalgic period. It started with...
...reasons for any great band's decline--and from 1983 to 1992 R.E.M. was one of the greatest, not only cranking out an unmatched series of jangly, literate records but also tracing a heroic arc from arty Athens, Ga., bar band to arena filler without any of the usual soul-selling--are not particularly surprising. Imagine if your livelihood depended on constantly being with, and agreeing with, your three best friends from college. It's enough to make a rock star want to become a farmer, which is exactly what drummer Bill Berry did when he retired from the band...