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...general was just in terrible condition,” captain Will Craig said. “It was a difficult day to try to play on the ground and play pretty soccer.”Brown also struggled making its offense click upwind as most of its balls were blown array by the wind. In fact, a couple of goal kicks and punts from freshman goalie Jarret Leech simply were blown out of bounds before they even reached the midline. Despite the Crimson’s obvious advantage that helped it get a number of early chances to catch...
...League, and if we could beat them to start this last stretch of the season, I think we’d be on our way.” Beating the Bears could help shape the Crimson’s season long after the final whistle is blown at Ohiri Field tomorrow afternoon. Last year’s 1-0 last-second triumph served as a bit of a spark for the team, and it would love to do it again. “We thought that game was going into overtime, but Nick [Tornaritis] picked up the ball at half...
...film adaptation of the Braxton classic, everyone’s favorite contralto was all weepy because her boyfriend got blown up in a motorcycle accident. In Finnish director Antti Jokinen’s Missy clip, we see Miss Demeanor’s beau make a similarly shuffling exit from the mortal coil. Now, if the video were as lame as the self-pitying album version of the song, it would be ’96 all over again. Luckily, Missy added an amazing new verse, and Jokinen realized that it’s way cooler to watch a murder than...
There is not a single gun in this movie. In this country, we routinely watch movies where thirty or forty people are shot in the first act. We are so disconnected from gun violence. We can watch soldiers shot and blown up on CNN all day, but a fistfight between soccer fans is too violent. It’s crazy...
Kuraj, as Silvia di Natale notes in her remarkable first novel of that name, is a Kyrgyz word for a kind of bush that is blown across the Central Asian steppes by winter winds, shedding seeds, leaves and branches as it goes. The English-language equivalent is tumbleweed, which certainly describes the book's tragically displaced heroine, Kaja, and in a sense the work itself. The talk of the 2000 Frankfurt Book Fair, Kuraj won a yurtful of literary prizes after it first appeared in Italy in the same year. Subsequent translations have charmed critics in France, Germany, Greece...