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...going through his throwing motion at Yankee Stadium. With easy deliberation, he shows off the form he says he perfected playing elementary school baseball in the dirt-poor southern Philippines before boxing took him over completely. His shoulder slips back, his torso pitches smoothly forward, left hand and arm torquing an imaginary ball into the depths of the air-conditioned players' cafeteria, where he is waiting to take the field for an announcement. The diamond stud in his ear catches the light...
...about the stage with the precision of mechanical instruments. The plucked strings of the folk music—a piece by Yann Tiersen, best known for creating the soundtrack for “Amélie”—resonated as the dancers replied in stiff, precise arm movements that still managed to remain lyrical...
...Batel, Wanxin Cheng ’13, Callie A. Kolbe (Tufts ’10), and Tiffany E. Wen ’11 rose from the floor, dressed in white hoodies that partially obscured their faces. They proceeded to create a bold, monochromatic image of vertical motion. Their strong arm movements and fluid torsos, which at times evoked military orders, expressed the power and self-assuredness capable when one possesses full control over one’s own body...
Junior quarterback Collier Winters took the snap and tried to run up the middle, but a wave of Quaker defenders plugged the hole. Winters changed course and wrapped around to the outside, but Penn cornerback Chris Wynn was waiting. Wynn hit Winters, and Winters hit the ground, arm and ball outstretched. The referees conferred and marked Winters down just inches shy of the endzone...
...problem, too, is the distance with which the U.S. held ASEAN in recent years. While China, India, Australia and other regional economies have been assiduously wooing Southeast Asia by signing free-trade agreements with the bloc, the U.S., particularly under the presidency of George W. Bush, kept ASEAN at arm's length. One reason was Burma's accession to ASEAN in 1997, which put the U.S. in a tough spot. Washington had been tightening sanctions on the Burmese junta because of its dismal human-rights record. By participating in ASEAN confabs, Bush's State Department worried that it would send...