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...pretty important to bounce back and get on the right track,” O’Neill said...
...pesky Huskies fought back in the bottom of the fifth with a Ryan Maguire two-run double down the left field line, putting them back in the game at 9-6. The runs continued to pile up in the sixth inning. With the bases loaded, Reynolds connected once again for a single that would drive in two more Crimson runs...
...Having everybody being able to be back is a big boon,” said P. Kenzie Bok ’11, president of the Institute of Politics’ Student Advisory Committee...
...drought has severely affected our customers' itineraries in Yunnan." Those places accustomed to welcoming hordes of tourists, like Xishuangbanna's capital city of Jinghong, have previously been characterized by the most boisterous water-splashing celebrations; there, children and visitors haphazardly fling containers of muddy and colored water about, rushing back and forth to restaurants and strangers' homes to refill. Anouska Komlosy, curator of Asian ethnography at the British Museum, writes that in villages just outside the capital, the splashing has typically been more subdued. This year, even the capital is likely to follow suit...
...Calmer celebrations might bring back to memory the real reason for all the splashing: the promise of rain. Chinese scholars often trace the Songkran festival back to India. Classic Hindu texts describe water-splashing as a means of washing away sin on the occasion of the New Year, when deities would visit the land of the living. Since at this time the gods are so close, it is also an opportune moment to ask for precipitation; splashing therefore becomes a way of praying for plenty. By sprinkling water, the Dai, like the Indians before them, should be attempting to entice...