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...first varsity could not match its performance from Sprints. The boat placed just 12th out of 16 in the field and could not top three Eastern crews it had beaten earlier this season...
...highlight of the year was Harvard’s fourth straight Beanpot title. In the tournament semifinals, the Crimson stunned heavily favored host Northeastern, which was ranked second in the nation at the time. It was also the fourth straight year Harvard had beaten the Huskies in overtime. While Botterill had been the hero each of the past three years, this time it was sophomore winger Lauren McAuliffe achieving the feat...
...Okhotsk. The two nations are separated by a mere 43 kilometers of water, but the cultural gulf between them is immeasurable. Whereas Hakodate has a fastidious obsession with order and cleanliness, Sakhalin is rough and gritty, reflecting its history. Forgotten by successive Russian governments and weather-beaten by violent winter storms, Yuzhno is a mix of degraded Soviet architecture, dusty, potholed streets and makeshift stalls...
...Mehrjui's Iranian film Bemani tells of three women in circumstances that are extreme but not, alas, unusual: an Iraqi who befriends an Iranian soldier and is beheaded by her outraged father; a studious Iranian who doesn't tell her father she's taking pre-med courses and is beaten by him; a third girl hit by her father because she chatted with a shepherd, then forced into a loveless marriage with a rich man who will pay her family's rent. The last two women set themselves on fire in protest and despair. Yet the film can also burst...
...asked to review this book because I am a Chinese novelist. But the Chinese women in Wild Ginger and all the other books in the Chinese Chick genre strike me as completely removed from the experience of the contemporary Asian woman. In the novel, Wild Ginger is regularly beaten with belt buckles and has to wrestle with big issues like the struggle for political liberty and the freedom to love. Quite honestly, the major issues I've had to struggle with the past month were a) how to lose weight, b) how to remember where I've parked...