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...said. “I think they knew that the first time we played them, we played horrible and that we were a better team [than we showed].”The Crimson and the Pride exchanged wins in the second and third games, as Springfield’s block became increasingly effective against the Harvard attack.It was not, however, until partway through the fourth game that the momentum truly shifted in the Pride’s favor. Down 6-1 and trailing by a game, Springfield avoided mistakes and often caught the Crimson off guard by tipping the ball...
...DESPAIR AND HUMILIATION Suzzy Afua Deh was 5 at the time of Ghana's first coup. She remembers those early years with fondness. "Life then was easy because my father worked," she told me as we sat outside her two-room breeze-block house in Lapaz, a poor neighborhood of dirt roads and street hustlers in northwestern Accra. "Everything was O.K." Suzzy, who is now 46, stayed behind with her grandparents in Fodome when her parents moved to Accra. The extended African family has always been a welcome insurance policy when times get tough...
...paper rsum is egalitarian, more or less, and that's why human-resources people are wringing their collective hands over visually enhanced job applications. Many recruiters won't even accept CVs with photos attached for fear of lawsuits. Some companies even block out the candidate's name, citing studies that showed bias toward the white-sounding ones. They're worried that video rsums will invite lawsuits by candidates who could claim bias based on race, gender or age--indiscernible on paper but not on video...
...three of his 14 total kills and an ace within the first few minutes. After holding a steady lead throughout the game, Rivier clawed back from a two-point deficit at 22-20, riding off the momentum of Raiders’ sophomore Scott Wright’s thunderous block to collect five consecutive points and the game victory. “After batting around a .400 attack percentage, we dropped to hit .194,” said Ridolfi. “We talked about being workmanlike and professional but we weren’t specific enough. [The team...
...patient's arms was horribly broken and bent at an ungodly angle. She had just started a large-bore IV in the other. And while her big fat needle pierced him three or four times before it found blood, this stolid 60-year-old Eastern European block of a man had made not a sound. His face hadn't registered a flicker of pain, his arm stayed still, even his hand remained limp. No reaction to this needle torture promised an unsatisfying go at the VAS. But dutifully she administered. Protocol...